The Sacraments in Quarantine (Dr. Janet Smith) | Ep. 196
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Pines with Aquinas. Today I'm going to be joined by Dr. Janet Smith. |
| 0:12.2 | Dr. Janet Smith is an American classicist and philosopher and former professor of moral theology |
| 0:16.5 | at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 0:26.4 | She's created this new open letter called We Are an Eastern People, |
| 0:34.8 | which urges bishops to make the sacraments as accessible as possible during this time of, |
| 0:36.0 | in the coronavirus. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, good a day. Dr. Janet Smith. How are you? |
| 0:45.6 | Good day to you. You look fantastic. Did I say it the right way? Good day. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's pretty good. Okay. Good day to you. Oh, I'm always afraid people think it's a shtick or something. It really |
| 0:50.0 | isn't. We just just speak like that. Oh, yeah. You're just insufferably cute when I was I was in |
| 0:55.6 | Australia many years ago and I was very very nervous and the the from my talk and the |
| 1:02.8 | organizer said oh just open your mouth and talk we are so enchanted by the American |
| 1:08.1 | accent and I thought oh I'm just going to think about that for the rest of my life. People are just enchanted. And we are enchanted by your accent. So just keep being spontaneously authentic. |
| 1:20.6 | It's all about where you're from. People say, I love your accent. And I'm like, I love yours. So that's good. Well, tell us maybe a bit about yourself, for those of you |
| 1:29.5 | who aren't familiar with you, and then tell us about this open letter that you've put together. |
| 1:34.4 | All right. Well, I've been sort of a Catholic activist for now pushing 40-some years, maybe longer, |
| 1:41.8 | most known for my work defending the church's teaching on contraception and that it being |
| 1:47.8 | against God's will for sexuality. |
| 1:50.9 | Written a lot of other stuff on bioethics and life issues, ethics in general. |
| 1:58.4 | There's an enormous amount of public speaking at certain phases of my life almost every other week |
| 2:04.5 | and sometimes two or three parts of the country even in that same weekend. I'm retired now. |
| 2:10.1 | I've slowed down in some respects, meaning most of my activity is within these four walls, |
| 2:15.9 | as most of us are these days, but still |
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