This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley bring listener questions about the synod to America’s veteran Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell.
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There should be voting at the synod.
But it shouldn’t be as simple as that.
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Cardinal Cupich: What Jesuit Catholic universities can do to stay true to their identity and mission
No Jesuit Catholic university’s mission should be reduced to the wider culture’s understanding of social justice.
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What ISIS couldn’t take: The place and faith Iraq’s Christian refugees carried with them
The story of how one Iraqi refugee preserved the memory of home through her art.
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Exclusive Excerpt: What can the story of Lazarus teach us about new life?
The newest book by James Martin, S.J., inspires us to ask: Do you believe that Jesus can give you new life?
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The wit and wisdom of John Tracy Ellis
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan reviews Msgr. Thomas Shelley’s ‘John Tracy Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer,’ calling it “a well-documented yet very readable biography of the ‘dean’ of American Catholic history.”
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Catholic schools attracted students during the pandemic. Can they keep them?
Schools face changing realities, including geographic population shifts, questions about affordability and a generation of parents who are less likely to participate in Catholic life than their parents or grandparents were.
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The complicated legacy of state investigations of the Catholic sex abuse crisis
Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?
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The professor pope: Reflecting on Pope Benedict’s love of young people and education
Nearly everything Pope Benedict ever wrote or said in public was visibly animated by a concern to encourage—and to answer—the honest existential questions that young people are brave enough to raise.
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James Martin, S.J.: ‘Does God exist?’ and other FAQs about faith and religion
I spoke with friends who work with young people, and young people themselves, to get the hardest questions about God and religion.