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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo. |
| 0:08.1 | One of my favorite things to do as a priest is to journey with our brothers and sisters as they explore becoming Catholic in the RCIA program. |
| 0:16.5 | The oddity is that oftentimes those who come into the church are the best educated Catholics that |
| 0:21.7 | there are. It seems that what we need is something like RCIA for Catholics, for those of us |
| 0:26.9 | who have grown up with the faith and have never really learned it. So I invite you to join |
| 0:31.2 | those coming into the church as they learn about the beauty of our faith and hope as well that |
| 0:35.6 | it will help to draw you ever closer to the God |
| 0:37.9 | who is truth and love. |
| 0:40.3 | On this RCAA for Catholic's edition, Father Ricardo explains the sacrament of marriage. |
| 0:45.7 | I'll start with the easy one, which is why don't Roman Catholic priests marry? |
| 0:49.9 | We do, actually. |
| 0:51.0 | There are Latin right Catholic priests who marry. |
| 0:53.4 | They have to appeal to Rome for dispensation. |
| 0:56.2 | But I know several guys personally. |
| 0:58.7 | Typically what they were was they were Anglican ministers |
| 1:01.2 | or perhaps they were Lutheran pastors |
| 1:02.7 | who have come into the church. |
| 1:05.0 | They are married. |
| 1:06.0 | And that is their life. |
| 1:07.3 | Their life is ministry and they've served in this way. |
| 1:10.2 | So they can personally petition |
| 1:12.6 | the Holy See to ask the Holy Father to grant them permission to get ordained as Catholic priests. |
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