Even More Questions from the Internet about Priests

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Fr. Mike follows up on his episode “Answering the Internet’s Most Asked Questions about Priests” with answers to even more questions from the internet about priests. Here he answers questions like:

How do you bless holy water?
Are priests allowed to drink alcohol?
Where do priests live?
Do priests go to confession?
Are monks and friars priests?
Do priests take a vow of poverty?
Where do priests go to school?

Support The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Father Mike, take two.
0:01.2	How many times father Mike's Schmitz and this is a sense of resents.
0:04.3	So a little while ago we did a bit on the internet's most asked questions for priests and
0:10.5	I thought, when I do some more questions, I think that would be a great idea.
0:14.3	Okay, the very first question is, how do priests make holy water?
0:25.6	I bless the hell out of it.
0:29.4	There is a prayer of blessing and then, yeah, they invoke the name of the Lord,
0:33.5	Father's Holy Spirit, over the water and yeah, it's prayer.
0:37.4	Are priests celibate?
0:38.7	What does celibate mean?
0:39.5	It means don't get married and don't engage in the activities that only married couples should engage in.
0:45.4	So yes, priests make a promise of celibacy to not get married and to have what do you say,
0:52.8	platonic relationships with people but not romantic relationships with people.
0:56.1	Are priests allowed to drink?
0:58.1	Great question.
0:59.0	Will they better or else they'll die?
1:01.2	Hydrate or die, great?
1:03.3	Oh, you mean alcohol?
1:04.4	I can't hit.
1:05.0	Sorry, yes.
1:06.2	They're allowed to drink in the same way that any other human being of legal age is allowed to drink responsibly,
1:14.2	as they say.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ascension, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ascension and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.