Father Greg Boyle talks the pandemic, what he’s learned looking back on his years in ministry, and why he is becoming more mystical as he gets older.
Jesuitical
A podcast for saints and sinners from America Media. Hosted by Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
How Dr. Paul Farmer put Catholic social teaching into medical practice
Founded in 1987, Partners in Health has pioneered an approach to medicine that actually resembles Catholic social teaching’s preferential option for the poor.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Podcast: Her mom went to prison. Now she fights to free others from life sentences.
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley talk with Brittany Barnett about the experience of visiting her own mother in prison and her work fighting to get clemency for men and women sentenced to life without parole for drug offenses.
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Podcast: Gloria Purvis on why the pro-life movement has been silent on racial justice
This week on Jesuitical, Ashley and Zac are joined by Gloria Purvis, the host of America Media’s latest podcast “The Gloria Purvis Podcast.”
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The church has models of non-sexual same-sex love. Why don’t more gay Catholics know about them?
Biblical models like David and Jonathan, Ruth and Naomi, Jesus and all of the disciples—these are images not marital; they’re not sexual. They’re something else. There’s something beautiful, holy, open to everybody.
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Podcast: The Devastating Effects of Conversion Therapy on LGBT Catholics
This week, Zac and Ashley talk with Eve Tushnet about her recent feature article for America magazine, “Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating”.
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Podcast: What Catholics can do to fight Islamophobia
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley discuss how Christians have at times fueled Islamophobia and what we can do to combat anti-Muslim bias in ourselves in our communities with Jordan Denari Duffner.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Podcast: Catholics need to pay attention to what’s happening in Israel-Palestine
What’s going on in the Holy Land—and what’s at the root of the problem? Why should Catholics care?
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Podcast: Arturo Sosa, SJ, on being the leader of the Jesuits, Pope Francis and the Ignatian Year
Arturo Sosa, S.J., is the 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus. In other words, he’s got St. Ignatius Loyola’s old job.
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What a Jewish editor brings to a Catholic podcast
This week, Zac and Ashley take you behind the scenes of Jesuitical in an exit interview with our amazing outgoing editor, Noah Levinson.