We Asked a Celibate Priest How to Date | ATB #36

Approach the Bench · Jun 18, 2026 · 1h 41m

WEEK 35: We Asked a Dominican Priest How to Date (ft. Father Max, O.P.)

We're at a resort with a guest who brings the theology heavy: Father Max, a Dominican priest of the Order of Preachers — the order of Aquinas himself.

We start with the man behind the collar: what the Dominican Order actually is, how he discerned a vocation to the priesthood, what celibacy looks like from the inside, and what an ordinary day in the life of a priest really involves. Then we get into the heart of it — love.

This is a full conversation about how men and women are meant to relate, and why so few of them seem…