This was delightful! Articulate, entertaining discussion that charms the mind with a humorous, intelligent, bordering on genius, use of the English language to illuminate the art of cursing, without actual swearing, that at the same time gives glory to God. That isn't an easy task...and I applaud your applying years of study of St Thomas Aquinas to this subject matter. You are both beautiful examples of human intellect at its best. Bless you both. I can't wait to pull this up the next time a teen child of mine swears around me. Priceless!

Ask and ye shall receive… was marinating on this just yesterday

👋 I'm right here! I'm a grown woman almost old enough to be your mother (probably) and I've been "swearing like a sailor " all my life. It started at age nine when a 14 yr old girl came to visit her aunt for a summer across the street and we became pals. She was older and cool and I was groomed to really shovel it out. It took and I was a natural at it and the rest is history. Today my husband and I have returned to practicing our Catholic faith after a 40 yr absence. I guess I forgot to mention I was in Catholic school back then ( he as well). It's barely been 1 1/5 yrs and I'm learning so much today. We were confirmed in August (covid delay) and there is so much more to learn that it can be a bit overwhelming at times. I still use occasional bad language out of habit. I seem to bump my elbow and knee a lot and the colorful words are automatic. I dont even have time to think about it. Other times, I become angry about something and suddenly I'm channeling my best De niro in response. That said, I am working on it. I hear what your saying about replacing certain words in order to wean oneself off, but I suppose I haven't because "what's the difference, really?", when the intent is still there? Still the same? I continue to pray to both God and Our Lady because I really feel like its gonna take a little divine intervention to break this stronghold. What say you? Any final thoughts? Advice? I was hoping for a little more closure in your discussion. Thank you. God bless! 🙏

My Dad grew up in a Southern Baptist house. Worst they could say was "holy crow." Dad said he learned swearing when he joined the Arrmy Air Corps in WW2. Pretty clean language growing up with Mom being Polish Catholic. Now working with people with dementia, it helps never to have used it and using clean speech helps get through with them.

As someone who works nights and keeps odd hours as a result, I appreciate that these are uploaded at equally odd hours (in Midwestern United State's time zone, that is)

Thank you for this discussion and instruction. When our children hit their teens my vocabulary became way too colorful when things got tense in our homeschool environment. I really like your tips and ask for you both to pray for me to substitute my words. God bless you and keep up the great work.

Another good episode. Many thanks, Fathers.

I work at FedEx, which is has pretty harsh conditions. I often get slammed by heavy boxes, fall into a trailer, drop a box on my foot, etc. I swore a little bit before this job, but since I've started working, I've developed quite the vocabulary. I think a large part of why I swear is obviously due to anger and frustration, but in addition to swearing, I find myself punching, kicking, and throwing boxes, especially when they get in my way. I find that I actually receive emotional pleasure in my wrath. Is that a grave matter? I sometimes feel the same way when I'm driving my car, but I don't get impatient when talking to incompetent people in the same way I do when I stack incompetent boxes. And if it is a grave matter to swear at boxes, should I go to confession for repeated behavior?

Is it a hardness of heart... Or just a "highlighting" of a point?

I was raised with no cursing, swearing, bad words and continued with that as a mom. Even my husband will not say curse words and he worked with truckers who used salty words all the time, I'm sure he joined in cuz it was around a bunch of men. We raised 3 daughters with no bad language used in the house ... now my youngest who will be 39 this year takes pride in her salty language, and has since she was a teen (tho not in our home)... it truly hurts my ears!

Eph 4. 29 sits on a card in front of me at work and I read it constantly this has helped me

I read an article once by the author Madeleine L'Engle in which she recounted having a conversation with someone about a disturbing subject. To make a point, she chose to use a swear word to emphasize how she felt about the subject. The person she was talking with took it in stride, as though she had used any ordinary word. She realized that swearing was used casually by so many people that it had lost its power to shock and had essentially become useless for that purpose. As an aside, I find it far more fun to call someone a "perfidious scion of a nescient brood" than "$$@#".

Father Pine Whats not to love? NOTHING. I love every episode. Cursing=habit just have to break the habit!

How about when you're getting close to death, you're in pain, what are you going to say? What has your head been trained to say? I know what my Dad said. I know what I said when hit by a car. His was Amazing Grace. Mine was praise God.

If you need substitute words for bad ones, Kidz Bop does a great job using positive replacements for rap song lyrics.

Men swearing, expected. The first time I heard a woman say, F! I lost respect. And this is coming from someone who, in my teens, screamed a slew of so many bottom of the trans ethnic barrel of swear words in a crisis, that my acquaintance witnesses promptly had me baptized. True story.

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I am a woman and if you will hear what I'm saying sometimes (I mean curse words) you will don't believe what did you just heard :D

Some of Jesus’ disciples were fishermen. I can’t imagine they didn’t curse

To give my (uneducated) take on swearing, I think of swearing like alcohol. Alcohol when used in the right time and place can be a good. Drinking too much or drinking in the wrong situations can be dangerous to one's health and is a sin. Maybe it's just a matter of time, place, and moderation? That's kind of my current view on it, but I'm certainly open to other ideas. Also, what would constitute a swear word? Does saying frick or darn as substitutes really change the meaning of what's intended? Maybe there's some merit to lowering the intensity of words said, but those substitutes may only have less intensity because of societal standards, not moral ones, so I don't know. Yeah, this issue seemingly just gets less black and white the more I think about it ugh...

I used to be quite a big swearer, but I find it just makes me more angry. It feels good at the moment but then I realized it didn't really help. Help. Just makes me feel worse. The last year so I've really worked on getting control of that and I find the less I do at the less I want to. And one thing I really can't stand is when comedians use a lot of bad language because to me it's just not funny or clever. It can't be like maybe once or twice but when it's every sentence it just gets actually really boring and movies that I have a lot of bad language again. It just shows that they really don't have a whole lot to say so they just say bad words to fill space. It's just a cop-out, it's boring