Father Mike, take one.

I'm an ex-father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents, answering the internet's most

common questions about priests.

Obviously, I am not in my living room right now.

I am in the library of the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and tonight I get to give a talk

about the Carnal Foley lecture series.

That talk, that lecture, will be available on Ascension Presents very shortly.

The topic is evangelization and the new media and what I have to say about that.

The very first question is, do priests get paid?

Most of them do. Typically they get paid through their postulate or through their diocese.

So again, diocesan priests, that's all I know about because that's what I am.

So for me, my ministry is the director of youth ministry for diocese and I'm the chaplain of campus ministry.

Both of those being diocesan operations and so I'm I get paid through my diocese.

Parish priests get paid through the parishes.

As far as I know, do priests marry?

Yeah, I did a wedding last Saturday just kidding.

Actually, the answer is no. On the other hand, a married person can become a priest.

So this is kind of a interesting thing that not a lot of people know.

Even in the Catholic Church, there are some rights of the Catholic Church where priests are married

and there are some allowances for people who like where ministers or reverends in other denominations

that were married that can get ordained priests.

But here's the kind of the distinction. While a married man can be ordained,

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