Where do U.S. politics and Catholicism intersect? On this week’s roundtable episode, “Jesuitical” host Ashley McKinless speaks with America’s chief correspondent, Kevin Clarke, and Father Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and senior analyst at Religion News Service, about today’s “signs of the times.” Together, Ashley, Kevin and Father Reese discuss Pope Leo’s health post-cancer surgery, immigrant detention as a religious liberty issue, the death penalty, and how these all tie into how Catholics are feeling about politics ahead of the midterm elections.
*Note: After this was recorded, the Vatican announced that Pope Leo needs no further cancer treatment. Read the latest here.
Chapters:
00:00 Our topics this week
1:19 Pope Leo health update (Note: After this was recorded, the Vatican announced that Pope Leo needs no further cancer treatment)
6:22 Pope calls Putin and Zelensky
11:50 Archdiocese sues Trump administration
15:52 Religious liberty and the Sacraments
20:20 Catholics denounce public execution
26:40 Catholics are souring on Trump
31:51 A Pope Leo effect in America?
Links from the show:
- The Fragility of the Pope
- St. Louis archdiocese sues DHS and ICE to bring sacraments to immigrant detainees
- The death of the American conscience will be livestreamed
- USCCB President Condemns Plans for Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution as ‘a Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death’
- Pope Francis: ‘death penalty inadmissible’
- Pew: Trump’s support among Catholic voters drops heading into midterms
- How Catholics have defended free elections—and why they must do so again
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