Catholic Voting and Celebrating Halloween
Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Josh goes in depth on two questions: What principles should Catholics turn to when it comes to voting for a political candidate? And is celebrating Halloween morally acceptable?
Snippet from the Show
“Why would any follower of Jesus Christ vote for a candidate whose policies are diametrically and directly opposed to the core beliefs we hold sacred as Catholics?”
SHOWNOTES
Glory Story (2:08)
Listener Feedback (4:20)
Celebrating Halloween (9:49)
Hi Father Josh!! First off, thank God for your existence, I appreciate you! I’ve been listening to you since July when a brother named Erik at a conference for men, called Triumph, told me about you (he’s probably listening to this shout out to him). Your content is very informative and it feeds my spirit. My question is, Is Halloween bad to celebrate? I’ve heard things from yes, because you're celebrating the devil to yes because satanic people do things on Halloween. But I wanted to hear from a Father, what’s your opinion on it?
- Erik
Catholic Voting (15:52)
Hi Father Josh, I really enjoy your podcast and love your random singing bits! Shout out to Charles my bf as he loves you too. In Canada we just recently had our 2019 election, and I just want to know your thoughts on the election and, if anything, what does the Church teach on how to vote the “Catholic” way?
- Michelle
Resources
- Broken and Blessed: An Invitation to My Generation by Fr. Josh
- Text “askfrjosh” to 33-777 to receive weekly emails for Fr. Josh’s podcast
- 4 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
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| 0:00.0 | What's up and welcome to Ask Father Jackson Podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to your questions. |
| 0:07.6 | Pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that is hopeful for you and your |
| 0:11.1 | walk toward becoming a saint. |
| 0:12.7 | Here's to the show goes, you hit me up with 3 to 5 questions per episode dealing with |
| 0:17.4 | anything and everything from morality to spirituality, relationship, advice, apologetics, |
| 0:22.4 | evangelization, catacletism, discipleship and the list goes on. |
| 0:25.6 | I will then spend time with your questions. |
| 0:27.7 | Pray with them and study and hopefully respond in such a way that is good for you to become |
| 0:31.4 | a saint. |
| 0:32.7 | This claim is this, I'm not perfect and therefore all my advice might not actually be helpful |
| 0:38.0 | for you if that's the case then I want to go ahead and repent and say, my bad, you can |
| 0:42.7 | trash whatever it is I say that does not help you to grow in virtue, go close to Jesus. |
| 0:47.3 | However, if my advice does help you to grow in virtue, it does help you to grow closer |
| 0:52.2 | to Jesus Christ, then I really want to encourage you to lean into Jesus Christ. |
| 0:57.6 | So he can give you the grace to fulfill the demands of the discipleship. |
| 1:03.0 | On today's show, we're going to talk about a number of really cool things we're going |
| 1:06.9 | to talk about anxiety, Halloween, and voting. |
| 1:09.9 | If you want your questions to get on the show, then I'll get through to his email them |
| 1:12.8 | to me at AskfatherJosh at ascitupress.com. |
| 1:16.4 | You can also text this number 33777 with the word AskfatherJosh, all one word, ASKFRJOSH |
| 1:26.2 | to win a raffle, to win a copy of my book, an autographed copy of my book for you or |
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