Host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell dig into three eye-catching Vatican stories this week.
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Voting Catholic: How should Catholics think about inflation when voting this fall?
In a new episode of Voting Catholic, Sebastian Gomes speaks with the economist Tony Annett about the causes of inflation—and with Catherine Orr, a pastoral associate in Wisconsin, about the pressure of rising prices for gas and other goods.
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Hell, dead bodies and burials: What does the church teach?
New episode of Jesuitical: on hell, demonic possession and Christian burial practices.
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Podcast: Fighting racism in our hospitals
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Dr. Amanda Joy Calhoun about the deep vestiges of racism in our medical institutions and the strategies she is using to challenge them in her own practice.
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How Father Mike Schmitz balances a popular media ministry with being a college campus priest
Podcast episodes and YouTube videos featuring Father Michael Schmitz rack up thousands, even millions, of views. But for students at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Father Mike isn’t a celebrity priest. He’s their chaplain.
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Podcast: Is the extended synod on synodality becoming a ‘Vatican III’?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle explain the pope’s reasoning behind his decision to extend the synod.
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How the Catholic imagination can save the lost art of reading
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson about the Catholic imagination—exploring writers like Toni Morrison and the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich.
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Deep dive: The ‘Synod on Synodality’ — What’s done and what comes next?
For our latest “Inside the Vatican” deep dive, we interviewed top officials in the Vatican’s synod office and ordinary Catholics holding listening sessions around the world—including someone who is more critical of the synod.
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Does God evolve? How evolution and A.I. are pushing the horizons of theology
Most Catholics these days don’t think there is a conflict between the theory of evolution and their faith. But it’s harder to wrap our heads around the idea that we’re still evolving—and that God might be, too.
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Podcast: The Hillbilly Thomists on Bluegrass, Catholic culture and liturgical music
This week on Jesuitical, Ashley and Zac are joined by Father Thomas Joseph White, O.P., of the all-Dominican bluegrass group, The Hillbilly Thomists.