The more and more seriously a person takes their faith, the more and more often they have questions.

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is The Sention Presents.

I know people who have said that they were raised, Christian, or that they were raised Catholic

and they were raised not to ask questions.

And I always have to stop them and say, okay, let me, let me, let me pick you a,

let me pick you a scenario. Is the scenario you were in religious ed or Sunday school or one of those kind of class settings?

And you were the kid with your hand up all the time, not because you really wanted an answer to the question,

but because you just wanted to be that kid with our hand up every time and like see if you could stump the teacher.

And at one point the teacher said, you know what, that's it Michael.

That's enough questions. Just put your hand down. Don't ask any more questions.

Because there is a way to ask questions where I really want the answer.

And there's a way to ask questions that you want to be the smart Alec.

I know because I've been both and we can smell our own a little bit there.

It also could have been, I found this out a lot where someone says, you know, my grandmother told me,

like, you know what, if you believe you don't ask any questions, you know, if you, if you have faith, you don't ask any questions.

And what I've found is that sometimes again, that's sometimes literally what someone believes.

But I've also found that sometimes what they're trying to say is, what they've gotten to a play, what they've done is,

you've gotten to a place in their spiritual life in their relationship with Christ,

where when hard things happen, when bad things happen, they don't ask the same questions anymore.

Because they have reached a place of trust. They reach a place of deep faith where they don't have to question when this or that is happening.

Does that make sense? No, it could also be that they just don't believe you should ask questions.

Which is not not the perspective of the Catholic Church. In fact, we love questions.

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