On “Inside the Vatican” this week, Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell look at the viral image of the pope in a puffer jacket, which led to a conversation on Vatican responses to A.I.
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Podcast: We don’t need to stop being angry in order to forgive
On the final episode of this season of “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria welcomes Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts to discuss the subject of anger and forgiveness.
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Podcast: Going on ‘Digital Pilgrimage’ and praying with a smartphone
The new JesuitPilgrimage app provides photos, prayer and audio guides and interactive maps to bring users to the significant spots in the life of St. Ignatius and the Society of Jesus.
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Podcast: The Vatican’s mega-trial of the century—and the cardinal at the center of it
On this week’s episode of Inside the Vatican, Ricardo and Gerry discuss the most recent happenings in the Vatican’s mega-trial of the century with the Vatican bank.
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The case for making childbirth free
If there is one thing that pro-life and pro-choice advocates can agree upon, it’s that the cost of having a baby is significant and often a deterrent for mothers carrying their child to term.
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Podcast: Why Nicaragua suspended ties with the Vatican
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua suspended diplomatic ties with the Vatican in what appears to be retaliation for Pope Francis’ likening his regime to “a communist dictatorship in 1917, or a Hitlerian one in 1935.”
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Brooklyn’s Bishop Brennan on parish diversity, church closings and his move from Ohio to New York
A conversation with Bishop Brennan about what it’s like to switch dioceses as a bishop and the future of parish life in an era of church closings and reorganization.
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Podcast: How should Catholic institutions make reparations for the sin of slavery?
Laura Masur joins “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” this week to talk about her work recovering fragments of Black American history from what she calls “sites of memory” or places where enslaved persons dwelled, often in Catholic-run institutions.
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You’ve never heard the story of Jesus’ Passion like this: An interview with the Notre Dame Folk Choir
A conversation about “The Passion,” a new musical production from the Notre Dame Folk Choir.
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Podcast: Two Catholic theologians model healthy debate on transgender issues
Elizabeth Sweeny Block and Abigail Favale are two Catholic scholars who have modeled civil debate around sex and gender in the pages of America and do so again this week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast.”