The Patrick Madrid Show: June 17, 2026 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick takes intensely personal calls about Catholic marriage and impotence, blending frank teaching with practical steps for those facing canonical obstacles. He offers parents heartfelt strategies for engaging adult children who stray morally or spiritually, nudging toward reflective conversation rather than confrontation, while challenging both superstitions about cursed religious objects and casual justifications for grave sins like abortion. In between, Patrick slips in musical asides and a reminder to weigh internet voices with discernment, holding up prayer and thoughtful evangelization as anchors through faith’s messier questions.
- Email – I’m an old man and I can no longer have marital relations and cannot consummate the marriage. Can I get married outside of the Church? (00:42)
- Sarah - How to bring up the conversation with my adult child who I’m pretty sure has committed adultery, doesn’t go to confession, and is there the possibility of hell? (04:17)
- Terese (email) - What is an appropriate response to a person that says they're a "recovering Catholic"? (10:52)
- Michael – Do you have any advice on rosaries made in China. I blessed them with Holy Water because I heard they could be demon possessed from China. (19:44)
- Linda - Is there a resource for finding more of the leading questions talking to your child about adultery. (38:16)
- Rose - Is it okay to watch scary movies as a Catholic? Should he avoid them and should I continue to turn him away from them? (43:55)
- Gloria - We just bought a used car. Is it necessary to get it blessed or can we do a prayer on our own? (48:31)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Switching to the redundant sense sequencer, T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4. |
| 0:09.9 | We've gone for main engine start. |
| 0:12.6 | Rock and roll. |
| 0:19.3 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:25.5 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:29.8 | All right, 888-914-9-49. |
| 0:33.1 | Call that number, and you could be on the air with me with your comment or question. |
| 0:37.1 | 888-149. |
| 0:39.3 | This is a note from Anonymous and he signs it Anonymous Embarrassed Old Man and he says, |
| 0:46.9 | I'm an old man. I'm in my late 70s and can no longer perform the marital act. |
| 0:53.8 | My girlfriend, also the same age and I, are talking about marriage. |
| 0:58.6 | But I can't marry in the church, right? |
| 1:00.7 | Because I can't consummate the marriage. |
| 1:04.5 | Would it be all right to marry in court then? |
| 1:07.3 | Well, I'll answer the last part first. |
| 1:14.0 | No, because for you as a Catholicolic and i presume you're a catholic because you're asking a very good question that a catholic you know would wonder about |
| 1:21.5 | and so no it would not be okay to marry outside the church to marry in court because that |
| 1:30.0 | wouldn't be a valid marriage because it wouldn't have the canonical form that's required |
| 1:34.7 | for you as a Catholic. |
| 1:36.8 | So as to the first question, the thing to know here is that what the church refers to as perfect impotence, which is what we're |
| 1:47.8 | talking about here, which means the inability to consummate the act. That itself, in itself, |
| 1:58.3 | is an impediment to marriage. |
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