Listen to Gemma’s homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B, in which she explains how her experience of poverty in Brazil gave radical significance to Christ’s words: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you.”
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A mother’s mission to change how we talk about pregnancy and disease
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley are joined by Megan Nix, the author of Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother’s Pursuit of the Truth.
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After public rift, Francis restores Benedict XVI’s former secretary to Vatican service
Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle analyze the reported forthcoming appointment of Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary and how it fits into the archbishop’s often publicly tumultuous relationship with Pope Francis.
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Bishop Stowe preaches on the climate crisis for Good Shepherd Sunday
On this week’s episode of “Preach,” Bishop Stowe shares how he connects the image of the Good Shepherd from the Gospels to the climate crisis.
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Roundtable: What the Vatican said about gender theory in ‘Dignitas Infinita’
In this special round table episode of “Inside the Vatican,” America Editor-in-Chief Father Sam Sawyer and the Executive Director of Outreach, America’s LGBT Catholic resource, Michael O’Loughlin, join host Colleen Dulle for a discussion on the document “Dignitas Infinita” and the pastoral challenges it presents in the guests’ ministry to LGBT Catholics.
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Podcast: A Muslim theologian on teaching at a Jesuit university
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with Professor Amir Hussain, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University, about life and teaching as a Muslim at a Catholic university.
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Podcast: New Vatican document addresses gender theory, surrogacy and more
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell analyze “Dignitas Infinita.”
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To be a good preacher, pray more and read widely
Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, particularly the tools of repetition and organization, says John Baldovin, S.J. But also, he adds with hyperbolic emphasis, “you have to read, read, read, read, read and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.”
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Her son was beheaded by ISIS. Here’s what she’s learned about mercy.
In 2014, the American journalist James Foley was beheaded by ISIS terrorists. His mother Diane joins ‘Jesuitical’ this week to discuss his vocation, her enduring faith and a radical act of mercy.
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Why Pope Francis is worried about seminaries and young priests with ‘authoritarian attitudes’
In this special “Deep Dive” episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle paints a comprehensive picture of seminary formation today and the challenges formators are seeing.