The Pillar Podcast

This week, JD and Ed unpack the resignation of Cardinal Robert Sarah, what it means and where it fits in the bigger picture of Vatican curial reform. They also pregame a coming change to canon law, and then JD ranks some beer-themed poetry.

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Weekly Catholic conversations about the news, with JD Flynn and Ed Condon.

In this Ash Wednesday episode, JD and Ed talk about Lent and spiritual discipline, and look at the “success” of the Vatican-China deal. Then JD loses his mind during a perfectly reasonable conversation about beer.

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As Archbishop Joseph Kurtz prepares for retirement, he talked with JD about 50 years of priesthood, and more than two decades of episcopal ministry, including a stint as president of the USCCB.

The archbishop talked especially about his brother George, one of the most influential people in his life.

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On this week's episode, JD and Ed talk about the pandemic and Catholic schools - is it a crisis or an opportunity? They also discuss a really interesting interview with Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Bo (who has some thoughts on the coup in his country, American politics, and China), and the German bishops’ latest efforts to democratize the Church.

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Weekly Catholic conversations about the news, with JD Flynn and Ed Condon.

Weekly Catholic conversations about the news, with JD Flynn and Ed Condon.

On The Pillar Podcast this week, JD and Ed talk about a report claiming the Church in the U.S. took coronavirus aid “while sitting on billions,” and discuss what the Catholic Church is - and what it definitely isn’t.

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Weekly Catholic conversations about the news, with JD Flynn and Ed Condon.

On this week’s episode, JD and Ed talk over the canonical verdict on Bishop Hart, the correction of Nancy Pelosi, and Ed learns what “shapewear” is.

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