9/12/25 – Fr. Michael Copenhagen - Can Catholics Perform Secular Weddings?
About this episode
Fr. Michael Copenhagen is a Melkite (Eastern Catholic) priest, husband, and father at St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Melkite Catholic Church in Gates, New York. He holds a Bachelor's of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
In Today's Show:
- What is the foundation for Marian consecration?
- Why wasn't Mary present at Jesus' tomb for the resurrection?
- Can Catholics perform secular weddings?
- Why is the church not calling out wokeness?
- Should we receive the Eucharist if we haven't been to confession?
- "Religions don't do the things they preach about."
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