So the subject of this particular talk is fundamental questions for ethical decision-making.

So I thought it would be helpful to begin by appealing to experience.

In my last assignment, we would rotate among the priests in the rectory a duty line.

So at any time, day or night, you could call St. Louis Birchon, press 5,

and be routed to whosoever's

cell phone was kind of ordained for the day.

And as you might imagine, we got a lot of wild, wonderful, and interesting questions.

And for the most part, it was used for the express purpose intended, namely for the scheduling

of funerals on weekends and for those who needed a visit at the hospital.

But every once in a while you would just get the casual inquirer so that he would hear a message.

It was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Talk to a priest press five. They're like, okay.

So, in fielding those questions, I often received interesting queries.

One of which was, it was on a Friday, a gentleman called and said,

so the river's flooding, right, and I work for an engineering firm.

We're filling sandbags, and it's tough.

You know, it's very taxing.

He said it also happens to be lent, and I'd prefer not to abstain from meat.

Is this a legitimate way to kind of navigate my way around abstinence?

I was like, okay, fascinating question.

It's very well parsed and thought out.

Another one, this is great in the month of December, you may recall that Christmas fell on a Monday this year. At St. Louis

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