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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Is it Ever OK to Deny Christ?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike answers some hard questions from his #askfrmike inquirers, starting with a question about the controversial book and movie, “Silence”, wherein two renowned Portuguese priests travel to Japan and deny Christ to prevent the suffering of their parishioners. After telling the story, Fr. Mike says if we ever were placed in such a dire situation, the question would not be “What should I do?” but rather, “What is the right thing to do?” Fr. Mike clarifies, “To deny Jesus will always be the wrong thing to do.” Blaming someone for not denying Jesus, and thereby not preventing suffering, is a red herring because it distracts people from the ones truly causing the suffering, the actual torturers.

Answering another question from his viewers, Fr. Mike addresses the need to keep a healthy balance between caring for our bodies and caring for our souls. That means putting prayer and time with Jesus before working out.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is essentially a presence.

0:06.8

So I'm trying to make some of these, I'm trying to answer people's questions.

0:10.8

So here's two more, hashtag Ask for the Mike questions and hopefully answers.

0:17.3

This one is kind of a throwback and I apologize for the delay about it, but a number of people

0:21.3

wrote about this book slash movie Silence.

0:25.6

Here's the story.

0:26.8

Here's our field's character is Father Rodriguez and he and another priest whose name I can

0:31.6

never remember.

0:32.6

I read the book, but you know names are going to be missionaries to China.

0:36.7

Japan I meant to say sorry my bad missionaries to Japan.

0:40.0

Liam Neeson's character is Father Ferreri.

0:42.0

He had been like mentor of the year super awesome spiritual father and like really holy

0:48.1

guy back in Spain slash Portugal wherever they were from.

0:54.0

Wow geography and me are not doing well today.

0:58.0

The story is that Father Ferreri Liam Neeson's character had gone to Japan already and that

1:03.0

he had apostasized which basically meant that the bus is pulling up and squeaking with

1:07.9

tires and brakes.

1:09.8

Pocency means that he denied his Christian faith that he denied Christ.

1:13.7

And so here's Father Rodriguez and his buddy like what the what are you kidding?

1:17.0

No, that guy's an all star.

1:18.3

He's like superhero priests.

1:20.0

He would never do that.

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