The Patrick Madrid Show: March 05, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Patrick fields tough, personal questions about Catholic morality, including whether participation in military special forces can align with conscience, especially when lethal orders are at play. He also addresses concerns about valid sacraments, attending non-Catholic religious ceremonies, and the meaning of redemptive suffering, bringing stories from his own life and practical Church teachings into each call.
- Technical Errors – Everything is fine here. How are you?
- Joseph (14 years old) - Can a Catholic in good conscience be part of the Special Forces? (00:45)
- Ryan - I am in a quandary. Am I doing the right thing by getting a Baptism because I don’t remember my original Baptism? (12:50)
- Erica - Can I go to a bar mitzva? (25:11)
- Patrick in Trenton, NJ - When it comes to offering stuff up, can I not take pain meds and offer that up? (33:07)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Uh, everything's under control, situation normal. We're fine. We're all fine here now. Thank you. How are you? |
| 0:06.8 | I'm fine. Thank you. Hey, everybody. Patrick Woodjert here live and in person. However, uh, we had a glitch that we're still trying to figure out what that might have been, but I think it's behind us. |
| 0:18.4 | I didn't hear no bell, Pat. I can see clearly now the rain is gone, as somebody once said. All right, so real show, I'm really here. Don't worry about it. We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents. You can really call me 888-914-914-9-194-9-4-9. We're going to start off with Joseph in DeKalb, Illinois. Good morning, Joseph. |
| 0:41.2 | Good morning. Yes, sir. Good morning. Wow, I'm on the air. You sure are. How old are you? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm 14. That's great. 14 is a great age. |
| 0:54.4 | So you must have some deep thought on your mind. |
| 0:59.2 | Well, I was considering joining the military and a special forces career has always appealed |
| 1:07.3 | to me. |
| 1:08.3 | But the special forces are often used to assassinate people. |
| 1:15.0 | And is that, can a Catholic man in good conscience be a part of that? |
| 1:21.6 | It would depend. |
| 1:22.9 | This is a very good question. |
| 1:24.8 | So it would depend on three things. What is the object of the act itself, |
| 1:30.3 | in this case killing somebody? The second would be, what is your intention? And the third would be, |
| 1:35.5 | what are the circumstances? And you can apply this test in general to dilemmas in life. Is this a |
| 1:42.8 | good thing to do or not a good thing to do? You can apply these same |
| 1:45.4 | principles to this. So here's how I would take a look at that. In special forces, you're under |
| 1:53.7 | the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which stipulates that your commanding officer cannot give you an immoral order. In other words, |
| 2:02.8 | to do something that would be illegal. And when you sign up for the military, I myself |
| 2:07.8 | was never in the military, but I know plenty of people who are. And when you sign up to be |
| 2:13.6 | in the military, when you are out there doing your job in the military |
| 2:20.4 | like a special forces. One of the overriding, you might call it a prime directive, is that |
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