Celibacy and Priestly Life | Father Carter Griffin

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This lecture was given at the Catholic University of America on May 16, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute symposium titled "Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Carter Griffin is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. Raised Presbyterian, he converted to Catholicism while attending Princeton University. After graduating in 1994, he served for four years as a line officer in the United States Navy prior to entering the seminary. He attended Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland for two years of philosophy followed by the North American College in Rome for five years of theology. Father Griffin was ordained to the priesthood in 2004 and served as priest-secretary for three years before beginning doctoral studies in Rome in 2008. After completing his doctorate and serving as the parochial vicar of St. Peter’s parish on Capitol Hill, in 2011 he was appointed Director of Priest Vocations for the Archdiocese of Washington and Vice-Rector of St. John Paul II Seminary, where he now serves as Rector. He is the author of Why Celibacy: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest, published in 2019 by Emmaus Road.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:25.4	It's a pleasure to be here with you all and a pleasure to welcome our first guest who's
0:30.2	speaking, Father Carter Griffin.
0:32.7	He's a priest to the Archdiocese of Washington, studied in Rome, and has dedicated a good portion of his priesthood
0:40.1	to a priestly formation.
0:42.2	And most recently, he is the rector of the St. John Paul
0:46.1	the Second Seminary, right here in Washington, DC.
0:49.5	And he has written and published books
0:51.2	on the topic of celibacy and spiritual fatherhood. So it's a pleasure to
0:55.2	welcome Father Carter Griffin.
1:01.0	Thank you very much, Father Siriakou. It's a great honor for me to be here and to speak on this topic of
1:08.0	priestly celibacy
1:11.9	in the life of the priest.
1:13.9	And I'd like to begin with a story that is told
1:17.5	in an article that came out near the end
1:21.5	of the Second Vatican Council in Time magazine.
1:24.9	And the article is on priestly celibacy it's not entirely favorable an article
1:31.5	and it starts with this story about Pope John 23rd of course the the Pope at the
1:38.2	convening of the Second Vatican Council having a discussion with the Catholic
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