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The Catholic Talk Show

Catholic Priest Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions

The Catholic Talk Show

The Catholic Talk Show

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan & Ryan ask Fr. Michael the top 10 most searched questions about Catholic Priests. 00:00 Intro 01:42 Why Do Catholic Priests Wear Black? 02:49 Why Do Catholic Priests Wear A Collar? 08:40 Why Do Catholic Priests Wear Robes? 11:20 Why Can't Catholic Priests Get Married? 20:20 Do Catholic Priests Pay Taxes? 23:52 Can Catholic Priests Drink Alcohol? 24:31 Why Are Priests Called Father? 31:02 Why Do Priests Move Parishes? 35:10 What Do Priests Do For Fun? 36:27 Do Catholic Priests Retire? 37:40 Are Catholic Priests Gay? 42:07 Are Priests Mandatory Reporters? 48:39 Are Catholic Priests Holy? 50:18 Are Catholic Priests Happy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic Talk Show. Today we're going to be looking at the top Google questions on what priests do.

0:07.4

That's right. We're going to take Google and we're going to take Father Michael here and we're going to get to the heart of it and answer all your questions that Google asked about Catholic priests.

0:13.8

So if you like to find out the secrets of a priest's life, stay tuned.

0:20.1

All right. Can't say that I've ever Googled that, but apparently,

0:23.6

apparently a lot of people do, you know. I think one of the things that I've learned in marketing

0:29.0

and I've learned in kind of content creation is answer the question that people are asking.

0:34.0

A lot of times, you know, people will try to answer questions that no one's asking. So no one gets engaged with that. And I think the best way to really help satisfy people's curiosity and let people know more about the churches, what are they asking, and then answered for them. So that's what we're going to try to do here today. Hopefully a better answer than what AI can come up with or any of any of the different large language models because this is

0:55.4

actual. I mean, you're a real priest. Not digital. Yeah. I think, I'm pretty sure I am. Right.

1:00.6

This is going to be feeding the model. So this is going to be feeding the model. So it's going to use this,

1:04.7

but recognize that it's stealing the information from us. We do not consent. We do not consent.

2:03.1

Awesome. Our intellectual property. Now, before we hit the Googles, I want to make sure that if you're watching this, take one second, click the like and subscribe button. It's the easiest way that you could help support us, that in prayer. It only takes one second. The number one Google question for the Catholic talk show is, why have you not click subscribe? It's super easy. If you don't do it. Only you can answer that. Only you can answer that. All right. So let's jump right into it. And I think this is an easy one to jump into it. All right. Set me up here. All right. Google, why do Catholic priests wear black? Oh, because of death. Oh, yeah. That's it. Basically, yeah. I mean, like, you know, the, the modern clerics come from kind of an Anglican turn on things. And it comes, you know, there's Roman roots to it as well. But really, you know, black is is really that color of pen penance and death and just a good reminder of that yeah you probably need that reminder every now and then too yeah absolutely

2:07.4

absolutely yeah the man in black if you ever listen to johnny johnny cash song you know it's

2:12.6

reminds you those who are trodden down and yeah look like you going to a funeral song

2:17.3

i just might be i just might

2:20.2

be um i think it you know it sets you guys apart like and you look i imagine in the middle

2:25.8

age as priests were more colorful but i i think that's pretty cool that like when you're out like

2:31.0

when i was coming down here going to the airport airport, I see, I wear it all black.

2:35.4

I'm like, there's a priest, right? You could just immediately kind of pick that out, you know. Yeah, I may need to start wearing black as a reminder to myself too with the kids and stuff. Like, oh, remember. Yeah. Well, we might as well throw in like a bonus question here. Like, what's up with the collar?

2:50.9

That is a little bit of white going on.

2:52.0

That is the number two question.

2:53.5

What's up with that color?

2:54.2

Ask me. like a bonus question here like what's up with the collar that is the white going on

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