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JesuiticalFebruary 07, 2025
(OSV News photo/courtesy of The GIVEN Institute)  

This week, Zac and Ashley chat with Dr. Gina Zurlo, the Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, about her groundbreaking research on women outpacing men in worldwide church participation.

Zac, Ashley, and Gina discuss: 

  • Gina’s experience co-authoring World Christian Encyclopedia (Third Edition),  a 1,000-page textbook that documents the changing status of global Christianity over the past 120 years, which she presented to Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2023.
  • Why the participation and leadership of women in churches is often overlooked or underreported
  • Suggestions for how the church can better support and empower women in leadership and ministry

In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley cover the hundreds of emails obtained by the Associated Press that reveal the extent to which the NFL’s New Orleans Saints helped the Archdiocese of New Orleans contain the damage of new revelations of sexual abuse; and the Vatican’s new rules on how to worship when when a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday. 

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What’s on tap?

Black coffee

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