Father Mike Schmitz
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975 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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My name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
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The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
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In three hundred and sixty-five days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
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This is day two hundred and fifty-six.
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We are reading paragraphs nineteen forty-nine to nineteen sixty.
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As always, I'm using
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The Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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And we are just launching into the next section, chapter three, in fact, God's Salvation.
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We're talking about law and grace.
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And so today we're going to be talking about the moral law and how there are various kinds of laws.
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They're all connected.
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But we're going to begin with the natural moral law.
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So the natural moral law is is what the church has classically called natural law.
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It's not called natural law because it's like the law of nature.
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Sometimes people will confuse that and say, well, the law of nature is, you know, kind of like a we live in a dog-eat-dog world, that kind of thing when it comes to the law of nature.
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This is the natural law, which is the moral law, the obligation to do some things and to avoid other things that every person finds in the human heart, right?
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Every person finds in themselves to some degree there are laws written, not in some book somewhere, but written on the human heart.
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Romans chapter one talks about this, but also the church has, for 2,000 years, has talked about the natural moral law that every person inside of them,
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Again, not not that we all see this clearly, not that we all necessarily even agree on every point of this natural moral law, but there are certain things that alwa virtually always and everywhere.
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