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Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

Are Tattoos a Sin, the Covington Catholic Controversy, and Arguments Between Priests and Parish Staff

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Josh tells us if getting tattoos are a sin, and gives his personal thoughts on the incident involving the Covington Catholic High School student, and offers advice on how to approach disagreements between a priest and the parish office staff.

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We call Adoration exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, where Christ exposes himself body, blood, soul, and divinity to us in prayer. His invitation is for us to expose our hearts as well.

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Questions
Glory Story (1:04)
Listener Feedback (3:42)
Are Tattoos a Sin (8:24)
The Covington Catholic Controversy (13:00)
Arguments Between Priests and Parish Staff (25:42)
Universal Points (34:46)

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0:00.0

What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh.

0:02.0

This is the podcast where I get to listen to your questions, reflect on them, pray with

0:05.9

them, study them, and hopefully respond in such a way that is actually helpful for you

0:10.3

when you walk toward eternity.

0:12.8

I would encourage you and invite you to please hit me with your own questions that ask

0:17.0

Father Josh at essentialpress.com and rate us and review us on iTunes and other podcast

0:22.4

formats so that other people can find out about the show.

0:25.1

If the show is helpful for you, then potentially it can be helpful for them as well.

0:31.4

Today's topics we're going to talk about tattoos.

0:36.0

Just like a tattoo, hey, I'll always love you.

0:40.4

We're also going to talk about the MAGA hats, the Make America Great Again hats and the

0:46.7

Covington Controversy at the March for Life this year.

0:50.0

And finally we're going to talk about working with priest at a parish and the messiness

0:56.7

of some of our priest and our parishes and just the dynamics that go with being on staff.

1:04.2

Before we get jumping into today's topics, I want to share with you a Glorious Store.

1:11.9

A Glorious Store this week, it comes from just a beautiful encounter.

1:18.4

I was able to have with someone who was able to find freedom.

1:27.0

After many years of just living in shame, that was brought upon this person because of

1:36.2

sins of other people, this person was finally able to find freedom because they were able

1:42.3

to bring that which was in the darkness, that which was hidden for so many years into

1:49.0

the light.

1:50.7

And not only into the light and prayer, but also in counseling as well.

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