Last night on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC show “The Last Word,” we discussed Nuns on the Bus, Catholic social teaching and Jesus’s invitation to care for the poor in a five-minute interview.  That segment can be found here.  After the show, we continued our conversation on his “Very Last Word” segment, recorded in the hallway with a hand-held camera.  The Boston-born O’Donnell, a proud product of Catholic school education (taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield, Mass.) invited me into a wide-ranging conversation that touched upon development of a mature personal faith life, the contribution of women religious to the church, the workings of the Holy Spirit in the magisterium and in the People of God, and a great many other topics, which you can see below.

The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.