0:00 A Catholic priest interns at a psychiatric institute and meets a woman. Then this happens. >> Now, I had a rather fascinating and sad experience with a locution. I know we're overtime. Anybody want me to quit? No. This is an interesting subject, isn't it? This is an interesting subject. when I was an intern at psychiatric institute some 30 years ago the only time in my life I was ever called doctor and uh there I was and my
0:32 last name is so complicated that the patients called me Dr. Benedict. And I suppose people knew I was a priest, but I wore my black suit and my gray tie. And with a beard, everybody thought I was a rabbi that forgot to put his yarmulke on. And um and I was walking down the hall and one of my professors, a very elegant old Jewish lady, one of those commanding president presents, sort of a gold demay ear type, she walked past me and she said, "Oh, you know, Dr. Benedict, I'm
1:04 um I'm writing a book about the son of God. She was Jewish. So I fell down on the floor. And after I got up off the floor, I brushed my coat off and I said, "Well, now um Dr. Doctor, did you study theology?" "Oh, no." I said, "Well, how are you writing a book about the Son of God?" And she said, "It just comes to me. And she says, "I'm an agnostic."
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