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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Do Catholics Have to Respect Everyone?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes it can be hard to respect the character of a person you really don’t like. That’s no problem, says Fr. Mike, because you can still respect them as a human being and—if they are in a position of authority—you can still respect their position. Not everyone in our lives is going to earn the kind of respect that Fr. Mike would equate with trust. Those who have a respectable character will earn that trust though, and that’s the kind of person we should strive to be in other people’s lives.

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0:00.0

My name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is The Sension Presents.

0:02.5

So the video you're about to watch, I made a couple weeks ago.

0:05.1

It's about respect as you might have seen in the little tagline.

0:09.0

It was before I made the video, before the news in Pennsylvania came out about the scandal

0:14.0

of all those people that I want to say the priests who abused.

0:18.0

I want to talk about the kids, all those thousands, maybe thousands,

0:21.9

kids who were hurt were abused that the lives devastated by an abuse of authority.

0:28.8

In this video, I'm going to talk about authority.

0:31.0

Again, please don't misunderstand that I'm saying that authority in and of itself

0:38.3

can be used for good, it can be used for ill.

0:40.5

In this case, we just found out that authority was used for absolute evil.

0:46.3

And so as you watch this video, again, maybe that's going to be a thought in the back of your minds.

0:51.7

Again, I've been a certain sense I say maybe take it with a grain of salt in the sense that the

0:56.1

video wasn't made with that scenario or this news wasn't known. I didn't know.

1:02.9

Hopefully this video makes sense. It's not about scandals, it's not about abusive priests,

1:08.7

it's about something else, but that might be what you're thinking of when you watch it.

1:12.9

Okay, here you go.

1:14.4

So a question that many people have is, I know I'm called to respect everyone.

1:29.4

How do I do that when there's people, how do I say it, that I don't respect?

1:35.0

Like that's a great question, Canter. Let's talk about that.

1:37.6

I think what people think is that there's only one kind of respect, right?

1:40.9

And so it's if I'm called to respect everybody, but I really, I do not respect the actions,

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