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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Batman V Superman Anticipation

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we tend to bring down our heroes to a more ordinary, human level, and make them less worthy of our aspirations. Fr. Mike challenges this trend, saying the most important qualities of our heroes are their character and virtue.

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

0:03.3

So, when I was growing up, I remember coming home from a movie and walking up to my mom.

0:07.8

I was a little kid.

0:08.8

I'm walking up to my mom and saying, Mom, do you have any pictures of me in the hospital?

0:12.9

And she's like, what do you mean?

0:14.5

Like, I just want to know.

0:15.5

I need proof.

0:16.5

Did I really come from the hospital?

0:18.1

And she's like, what are you talking about?

0:20.1

And I was like, well, did I come from the hospital or did you find me?

0:23.9

Did you and dad find me?

0:29.2

I just come from watching the original Superman movie and I was so excited by the possibility

0:35.7

that maybe I wasn't actually the son of my mom and dad.

0:38.9

Maybe I was actually found in a field somewhere.

0:41.1

So then possibly I could be the kind of person who would one day be able to fly.

0:44.2

It wasn't one day be able to have bullets bounce off my chest or that kind of thing.

0:48.4

Unfortunately or fortunately, I am actually the son of my mom and dad.

0:52.2

And so I transferred that from Superman over to Batman.

0:55.5

And we've heard it finding out about, here's a guy, normal human being, who trains himself

1:00.3

and votes his whole life to like, defying crime.

1:03.0

He's able to do this kind of thing just by sheer practice and training and drive.

1:07.9

And I'm like, OK, and I can do that.

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