Same-Sex Love, Boycotting Netflix, Leaving the Priesthood

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🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

DISCLAIMER: Fr. Josh dives deep into details about the first question on same-sex love. Especially for parents listening with children in the car, please discern whether or not your child is ready to learn more about the specifics of homosexual intercourse.

Fr. Josh answers questions about why the Catholic Church cannot support same-sex relationships, how to be a conscientious consumer without being overly scrupulus, and what happens to priests who leave the priesthood.

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Snippet from the Show
“If we stop at the creature, and not the creator, we’ll be left unfulfilled. A sexual relationship [in marriage] is not the end we were created for. It can be a means to an end, which is God, but it can’t be an end in itself. ”

SHOWNOTES

Glory Story (1:11)
The past two weeks Fr. Josh’s parish as been holding the Love and Mercy Academy to help their middle schoolers recognizes how much God loves them, the gifts the Church, and the gifts of the Saints. Being a spiritual father is such a gift!

Listener Feedback (5:08)

Same-Sex Love (9:14)
Hey Father, I am Catholic and also I am a gay man. I feel like I agree with most teachings of the church, but this issue is insurmountable for me. I want to fall in love and truly believe that I can have a healthy sexual relationship with a man. Why can't I have this? Also, why does the church insist on using the term "same sex attraction" as opposed to "gay" and "homosexual"?
-Ryan

Boycotting Netflix (22:50)
Hi Father Josh, First, I want to thank you for your podcast! It has been a God-send because it has been helping me navigate evangelizing the Faith. While simultaneously, growing deeper in my relationship with Christ. Plus, it feels like when I listen to your podcast we’re drinking coffee and chatting at Full of Grace Cafe (even though I live in California). Father, you’re such a humble and wise priest. Can I say that? Know that I carry you and all your brother priests in my prayers!

Here is some background first before I ask my question. These questions are based off scrolling through some Catholic accounts on Instagram. These accounts have been basing their posts off information that has been shared on the media about the recent Heartbeat bills in the South. But I can’t help but wrap my head around how DIVIDED the nation feels about LIFE. Praise God these Heartbeat bills are passing! Because it all boils down to LIFE. Now all of these companies, such as Netflix, are saying they’ll leave the state of Georgia because they passed or passing a Heartbeat bill. My question comes from seeing Catholic accounts on Instagram saying that their followers should cancel Netflix because they won’t support Georgia and it’s heartbeat bill. When I asked my Mom, who is Catholic, says it’s okay to enjoy Netflix because we need to enjoy life too. Either way it doesn’t feel right. I just want to be a conscientious consumer of goods while standing firm for what our Church believes in.

Here is the question: If we like goods from certain companies, like Netflix, should we the Faithful stop consuming goods from companies who are Pro-Choice altogether? Or should we stand in solidarity in what we believe in, and quit Netflix? I’m not sure if I make sense. But I hope it’s clear what I am asking. I look forward to hear your answer to this question. Thank you Father!

-Janine

Leaving the Priesthood (33:10)
I know this is a difficult subject to discuss, but I am curious about how the Church manages priests who leave the priesthood, either temporarily or permanently. Are these men still allowed to receive the sacraments if they continue to faithfully practice Catholicism and observe the precepts of the Church? Speaking specifically of the diocesan priesthood, how common is it for a priest to leave the ministry? Personally, I know a handful of men who have left the diocesan priesthood, and it's incredibly sad - and they often leave the Church altogether.
-JP

Universal Call to Holiness (39:08)
What can we all take away from each of these questions?
Same-Sex Love - It is not lifegiving. God wants us to participate in things that bring us health and life.
Boycotting Netflix - Whenever we come together to address social evils, we can see powerful fruits.
Leaving the Priesthood - As the Body of Christ we are called to accompany our brothers and to love them well and to not push them away from the Sacraments if they fall away from their state of life vocations.

Resources
Want to browse the previous resources Fr. Josh has recommended? Go to ascensionpress.com/askfrjosh to select an episode and view the shownotes.

Broken and Blessed book by Fr. Josh Johnson
Research on health and same-sex relations from Family Research Council

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast wager to listen to your questions, pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it's
0:06.4	helpful for you when you walk toward becoming the saint that guide his eyes for you to be.
0:11.0	Here's to the show goes, you hit me up with questions dealing with anything, everything from morality, spirituality, evangelization, discipleship, care,
0:19.6	and the key to the college ed is relationship advice and I will intake your questions and pray with them and try to respond in a way that is helpful for you to grow in virtue to become a saint.
0:30.6	If you're a first time listener you can hit me up with your own questions, comments and critiques from today's show and for future shows at Ask Father Josh at AssetsandPress.com.
0:42.6	On today's show we're going to talk about boycotting Netflix and we're also going to talk about same sex love and specifically same sex relationships that are sexual and we're going to talk about leaving the priesthood and the ramifications of that for the men who choose to do that after they've been ordained.
1:08.6	But before we get into those topics we're going to share a glory story.
1:15.6	So my glory story this week is about my kids and my parish.
1:21.6	These past two weeks we've been doing this thing called the Love and Mercy Academy and Stephanie Kluat Davis and her team have come in town to help us do this as well as my awesome team of Jamie as my dearie and she's been rocking and Brandy and Wendy and Jenny and Karen.
1:36.6	The whole team has been amazing. I have these awesome religious that have come in the poor friars and little nuns of Jesus and Mary as well as the mercenary and sisters of the blessed sacrament.
1:47.6	And so we've been walking with our middle school students and helping them to just recognize and know how much God loves them, how much God wants to be in a relationship with them, the gift of the church, the gifts of the sacred scriptures, the gift of tradition, the gift of the rosary, the gifts of the saints and our walk toward eternity.
2:05.6	I love all these people in the body of Christ, the roles they play to help us to follow Jesus and stand up with Jesus.
2:11.6	And it's been so cool because in my last assignment before I was become a pastor a few years ago, I was the associate pastor at St. Louisius and I was able to really spend a lot of time with the kids because I didn't really have much responsibility.
2:25.6	I did, now I take that back, I did have a lot of responsibility, but I still wasn't a pastor. There's even more responsibility that comes with being a pastor than being an associate.
2:33.6	I think sometimes people they wonder like why pastors aren't always at everything and the associate pastor normally is and it's because he's a pastor.
2:40.6	And there's just a lot more stuff that pastors have to do that associate pastors don't have to deal with.
2:45.6	And so I totally have a different perspective on that relationship now that I'm a pastor.
2:51.6	But when I was the associate pastor, our parochial vicar is the appropriate term.
2:55.6	I was able to every Monday do a lot of activities with the school and then I would go to classrooms, start the week and I would teach some classes here and I would do events with the kids and pray with them.
3:06.6	I was just able to do so much formation with those students at St. Louisius that as a pastor I'm just not able to do with all of my students here because I never wanted to go down the Catholic school, but I'm also responsible for everybody.
3:20.6	Everybody and my mom and the young people, the old people, the young adults, the middle aged adults, the dying and sick, everybody.
3:26.6	And so it's been very difficult. So we've been trying to find a way for me to be able to be present to the to our middle school kids and to really all of our kids.
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