The Patrick Madrid Show: August 02, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Discover the challenges and moral dilemmas emerging from the rise of consumer DNA testing in this hour of The Patrick Madrid Show. Patrick dives into the heart-wrenching stories of individuals discovering their true parentage through services like Ancestry.com. He explores the emotional impact of misattributed parentage, the ethical concerns around DNA privacy, and the timeless commandment to honor your father and mother, regardless of biological ties. Should you seek out your newfound relatives?
- Maggie - Why was the death penalty changed in the Catechism? (00:48)
- Brian - Is civil divorce okay for purposes of health insurance or other financial reasons? (19:10)
- Email – Question about DNA testing (29:01)
- Email – Is “free will” real? (40:46)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. relevant radio. |
| 0:27.2 | Okay, we're back. |
| 0:27.9 | You could probably tell. |
| 0:31.3 | The number is 888-914-9. |
| 0:32.7 | Looking forward to hearing from you, |
| 0:34.6 | and you can call that number now. |
| 0:35.7 | We do have space available. 888-9149 emails go to patrick at relevant |
| 0:41.5 | radio dot com why don't we start at the top and go to maggie in miami good morning maggie |
| 0:46.1 | hi good morning yes um so my question is um regarding the death penalty, which I'm opposed to, you know, by and large. |
| 1:00.4 | But my question is, the Pope changed the entry in the catechism. |
| 1:05.9 | And before he changed it, it was acceptable in, you know, rare and extreme circumstances. |
| 1:13.0 | But now the catechism says, it is inadmissible. |
| 1:17.6 | And to me, and hopefully I'm misunderstanding this, this represents changing a teaching of the church. |
| 1:25.3 | And I don't know how to explain this to my RCIA students, |
| 1:28.5 | because I don't understand it myself. Okay, I can explain it to you. I can explain it to you. |
| 1:34.0 | So the change did not start with Pope Francis. It started with Pope John Paul II. And when the |
| 1:41.4 | catechism of the Catholic Church was first promulgated in 1988, the entry under the |
| 1:47.6 | heading of capital punishment was essentially what the Catholic Church had always said about |
| 1:53.1 | the capital punishment, about capital punishment for, you know, since time immemorial, which is |
| 1:59.0 | that capital punishment is not intrinsically evil and that it is |
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