The Patrick Madrid Show: July 26, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Special Guest Host Fr. Matthew Spencer dives into the history and complexities of married priests within the Catholic Church and tackles the emotional and ethical challenges surrounding surrogacy in modern society. He shares firsthand stories and provides thoughtful insights to help you navigate these nuanced issues.
- Email – My daughter is in a same-sex relationship and won’t talk to us anymore because we don’t approve of her lifestyle (01:13)
- Email – How could God always have existed? Who created Him? (15:18)
- Chris - I am battling with an atheist who is asking me about Unicorns in the bible. He thinks there are errors in the bible. (18:29)
- Jessica - Our priest is married. Is that allowed? (32:11)
- Gemma - Can you give a gift to a couple who are using a surrogate mother to have a child? (41:12)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.2 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio. Welcome Radio. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome back to the Patrick Madrid show. |
| 0:34.0 | It's Father Matthew Spencer sitting in for Patrick. |
| 0:39.5 | One hour down, but still time for your phone calls in case you want to join the conversation. 888 914-9149. Is the number to call. 888-914-9149-149. Oh my goodness. We have a lot going on in the world, in the church. |
| 0:56.6 | I know that sometimes you get worried and nervous about what's happening in the world, |
| 1:03.6 | about the state of the church, about the state of society and culture. |
| 1:07.8 | We have some emails of worried parents, those who are trying to seek God's will, |
| 1:15.1 | trying to know what they're asking of him. I'm going to go to this email from a listener who |
| 1:21.8 | will remain anonymous from Newark, Delaware. And this mother shares a common experience that we hear on relevant radio. |
| 1:35.6 | The experience of your child wandering from the faith, an adult child who maybe long ago |
| 1:43.8 | started rebelling and pushing back against your desire to have them practice the faith. |
| 1:50.0 | In this case though, this mother is experiencing also the challenge that her daughter faces in having same-sex attraction. |
| 2:03.3 | Her daughter is 28 years old. |
| 2:08.8 | This listener writes that her daughter lost her faith from the age of 15 and that she would like the support of her mom and her dad |
| 2:13.9 | on the decision to get engaged and get married to the woman that she's presently living |
| 2:19.5 | with. |
| 2:22.5 | And this is creating grief, as you can imagine. Grief, sorrow, it's creating a challenge for this |
| 2:30.0 | mother and father to know what to do. And they say this. They say, I attended the, this mother says, |
| 2:37.5 | I attended the National Eucharistic Congress. I have information that I received from various |
| 2:42.6 | organizations and also from Father Mike Schmitz and Kim Zember. I know that as soon as it has a Catholic content, my daughter won't read it. I sent her a video |
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