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June 04, 2021The Devastating Effects of Conversion Therapy on LGBT Catholics
This week, Zac and Ashley talk with Eve Tushnet about her recent feature article for America magazine, “Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating”. During Signs of the Times, they unpack a major overhaul to the church’s legal code and wonder: is basketball the holiest sport?

What’s on tap?
White Claw

Links from the show:
Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating
Pope Francis overhauls church’s criminal code to punish the sexual abuse of adults by priests
Pope: Basketball helps young people to ‘look up’

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44 min
May 28, 2021What Catholics can do to fight Islamophobia
This week, Zac and Ashley discuss how Christians have fueled Islamophobia and what we can do to combat anti-Muslim bias in ourselves and in our communities with Jordan Denari Duffner. Jordan, a scholar of Muslim-Christian relations, has faced pushback for her work from fellow Catholics—but says her study of Islam and friendships with Muslims have strengthened her own faith.

Our Guest: Jordan Denari Duffner, author of Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination

Related Links:
Father James Altman, who said Catholic Democrats would ‘face the fires of hell,’ asked to resign by his bishop
Pope Francis asks the Vatican’s media department, its most expensive office: Who actually reads your news?
Buy Jordan’s book!

What’s on tap: Water and lime for Zac; Lemon ginger tea for Ashley

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45 min
May 25, 2021 Gloria Purvis on the murder of George Floyd one year later
Today we're dropping the first episode of "The Gloria Purvis Podcast" from America Media! Gloria's show centers the voices of people who have been marginalized in the Catholic Church and in society. On this first episode, Gloria reflects on the murder of George Floyd one year later and speaks to a priest ministering in a historic Black Catholic community in Minnesota about the traumatic experience and how Catholics responded across the country.
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53 min
May 21, 2021Catholics: You need to pay attention to what’s happening in Israel-Palestine
What’s going on in the Holy Land—and what’s at the root of the problem? Why should Catholics care? This week, Zac and Ashley have an urgent conversation with Father David Neuhaus—an Israeli Jesuit who brings a unique, on-the-ground perspective to the situation.

Our Guest: Father David Neuhaus, superior of the Jesuit community in Jerusalem

Related Links:
Former Jerusalem archbishop: How long will Catholics keep ignoring the suffering of Palestinians?
Israeli Jesuit Father David Neuhaus: The first step to peace in the Holy Land is ending the occupation

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48 min
May 14, 2021He’s the top Jesuit in the world. Does that make him the pope’s boss? (Or ours?!)
This week, Ashley and Inside the Vatican’s Colleen Dulle chat with Arturo Sosa, S.J., the 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus. In other words, he’s got St. Ignatius Loyola’s old job. In other words, he leads the world’s Jesuits.

Our Guest: Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus

Related Links:
What the conversion of St. Ignatius can teach us 500 years later
Lay people have been passing on the Catholic faith for 2,000 years. Now Pope Francis has made it an official ministry
Vatican sends letter to U.S. bishops: Don’t rush the debate on Communion, politicians and abortion
Bishop McElroy: The Eucharist is being weaponized for political ends. This must not happen.
For the church to live in eucharistic coherence, we must be willing to challenge Catholics persisting in grave sin.

What’s on tap: The Cannonball (the official cocktail of the Ignatian Year)
Ingredients:
Mezcal, 2oz
Lime juice, 3/4oz
Blackberries, 6 (reserve one for garnish (this is the ‘cannonball’))
Jalapeno slices, 4
Agave nectar, 1/2oz
Soda water (optional)

In the bottom of a cocktail shaker, muddle together blackberries, jalapeno slices and lime juice. Add ice, mezcal, and agave nectar. Shake vigorously for 30 seconds. Strain into an old fashioned glass with ice. Drop one blackberry in from a height of 6 inches. Observe impact. Clean up. If desired, top with soda water or seltzer. Finally, await convalescence and conversion.

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57 min
May 07, 2021What a Jewish editor brings to a Catholic podcast
This week, Zac and Ashley take you behind the scenes of Jesuitical in an exit interview with our amazing outgoing editor, Noah Levinson. Noah has been with the podcast since day one, and we could not be more grateful for everything he’s done for the show.

Our Guest: Noah Levinson, the outgoing audio editor extraordinaire of Jesuitical

Related Links:
Learn more about the Camphill Movement (Noah’s new gig!)

What’s on tap: Cherry kijafa of unknown provenance

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34 min
April 30, 2021Dear Millennials: We have to talk about our commitment issues
This week, Zac and Ashley talk with Pete Davis about the case for putting down roots and committing—to a relationship, a job, a social cause—in a world that tells us to always keep our options open.
Our Guest: Pete Davis, author of Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an age of Infinite Browsing (out May 4) and co-founder of the Democracy Policy Network.
Sings of the Times:
Who is Father Swamy, and why is he (still) sitting in jail?
US Catholic bishops to vote on pressuring Joe Biden to stop taking Communion over abortion views
Related Links:
DedicatedBook.org
What’s on tap: Advent Calendar Wine (long story)
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57 min
April 23, 2021When protesting is a spiritual practice
This week, Zac and Ashley discuss the spiritual and liturgical elements of protest movements with Nathan Schneider. Nathan wrote a feature article for America marking the 10-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring protests, entitled, “Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?”
Our Guest: Nathan Schneider, a reporter and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Sings of the Times:
Catholic Church leaders react to Derek Chauvin verdict in killing of George Floyd
Why did the Biden administration have to be reminded of its commitment to refugees?
The Nuns are going to the border
Related Links:
Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?
Who was Ben Salmon and why should he be considered for sainthood?
What’s on tap: Absinthe
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49 min
April 16, 2021Christian purity culture and racism left 8 people dead in Atlanta. How should the church respond?
This week, Ashley and Zac discuss the intersection of Christian purity culture and racism with Flora X. Tang. Flora wrote a piece for America in the aftermath of the Atlanta killings of eight people, including six women of asian descent, entitled “Purity culture, racism and the violence against Asian women in Atlanta”.
Our Guest: Flora X. Tang, doctoral student in Theology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she studies post-traumatic sacramental theology.
Sings of the Times:
Pope Francis accepts resignation of US bishop for the first time under new sex abuse protocols
Archbishop Hebda prays for peace following police shooting of Daunte Wright
Related Links:
Purity culture, racism and the violence against Asian women in Atlanta
What’s on tap: Live Free or Die, from Death & Co

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40 min
April 09, 2021 Two Christians get married—what happens when one spouse leaves the church?
Stina Kielsmeier-Cook had a plan. Or more accurately, she thought God had a plan: She would marry her college sweetheart, and their shared love for Jesus and radical Christian commitment to serving the poor would anchor their marriage in something real and eternal.
But a couple of years into their marriage, her husband, Josh, lost his faith, and now Stina is navigating an increasingly common reality: mixed-faith marriage.
We talk to Stina about her new book, Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community, in which she grapples with the challenges (and opportunities) of sustaining a marriage, raising kids and nourishing her own faith life in a new state of “spiritual singleness.” Along the way, she meets women saints, Catholic nuns and religious “nones” who point the way to a reimagined Christian community for an increasingly secular world.
In Signs of the Times, the influential (and controversial) Vatican II theologian Hans Küng has died at 93 and a look back at the Vatican’s Easter Triduum.

Links from the show:
Hans Küng, influential Vatican II theologian censured by John Paul II, dies at 93
Cardinal: Too many Catholics don’t understand that some church teachings can actually change
Don’t call Dorothy Day a saint. But a ferry? Sure.
Stina’s book: Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community
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What’s on tap?
Ginger Shrub cocktail

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57 min

About Jesuitical

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Jesuitical is a podcast from America Media for saints and sinners. Tune in every week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church and our world today—sometimes over drinks. Hosted by Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis.