What Red Flags should Catholics be looking out for in relationships?

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Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Fr. Joseph-Anthony, the relationship counselor. Is religion a red flag? Do the friars recommend Catholics date non-Catholics? From acknowledging preferences in your significant other to sexuality, self control and more, Fr. Joseph-Anthony and Fr. Patrick give us their perspective of things to look out for when dating. Mark your calendars for the All Comer's Retreat!June 19-21, 2026 in Louisville, KYRegistration and more information to come soon Send your questions for the friars to:godsplaining@opeast.org Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsWitness: https://www.avemariapress.com/products/witness-1?srsltid=AfmBOoo3b2MbHxat33i-cwrd1AcSW_hPBfcHcm4-8XxJoCDn4OUgTBe_Training the Tongue: https://stpaulcenter.com/store/training-the-tongue-and-growing-beyond-sins-of-speechYour Eucharistic Identity: https://ignatius.com/your-eucharistic-identity-yeip/St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0	This is Father Patrick Briscoe.
0:07.0	This is Father Joseph Anthony Kress.
0:08.7	Welcome to Godsplining. Thanks to all who support us. If you enjoy our podcast, please
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0:25.5	Father Joseph Anthony, you have done a lot more weddings than I have.
0:25.8	Yeah.
0:34.0	I think maybe if I pulled a number out, I'd probably be like 40, 50 weddings in our 10 years of priesthood.
0:35.0	Wow, 10 years.
0:35.9	10 years, man.
0:38.1	That's going to be an episode. Yeah, it is. The priesthood, a 10 year retrospective. Oh, goodness. What do we know about anything? Nothing, actually. I still feel like I got training wheels on every day. I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing. So that's not true when it comes to liturgy, and you know that. but you've done a lot of weddings. You've prepared a lot of people for marriage.
0:57.8	Mm-hmm. doing. So that's not true when it comes to liturgy, and you know that. But you've done a lot of weddings.
0:56.0	You've prepared a lot of people for marriage. And part of that is because you have gotten to know
1:02.6	these couples along the way and helped them dating. I got a little bit of that when I was
1:09.4	at Providence College. I'm thinking of one couple
1:11.3	that's very dear to me. They're very good friends. We read together, oh gosh, this is so
1:19.0	embarrassing. Now the name of the book is going to totally escape me. Cat and the hat?
1:23.7	Yeah, it. Green eggs and ham. Yeah, Little Prince. That's right. Big little Prince you pay. We read together, no, come on. It's the one by Sheldon Van Ockham that you love. Oh, gosh, a severe mercy. Severe mercy. I wept so hard. If you look, it was like six chapter, seventh chapter. All those pages are just water soaked with my tears.
1:46.0	It's a beautiful book.
1:53.1	So I've got my one couple that I read of severe mercy with, but some others that I've known like from the beginning.
1:53.5	Yeah.
1:54.6	That's what I'm talking about.
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