Fr Mike Schmitz And The ‘Magical Vocation Myth’

Romanticising ditching women for the priesthood is a tasteless, hurtful, and spritually abusive part of Catholic culture

10 min readOct 6, 2022

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Catholic priest and podcast host, Fr Mike Schmitz

Imagine your college sweetheart breaks up with you. Imagine the hurt that would inevitably cause.

Sayde Scarlett

Written by Sayde Scarlett

Author and poet by day; artist by night. Loves to tell stories and create art; loves to talk about stories and creating art.

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