On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Kim Daniels, the director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University. Kim is a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, and served in the 2021-24 Synod on Synodality as an expert participant, as a member of the Synod Communications Commission, and as the coordinator of one of the 10 major Synod study groups, which focused on the church’s mission in the digital environment.

Zac, Ashley and Kim discuss:

- How the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s cuts to USAID

- Kim’s vision for implementing Catholic social teaching in the digital age 

- How the church and government partner to serve communities, including some myth-busting about where funds go and how they’re used

In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley are joined by Bill O’Keefe, the executive vice president for mission, mobilization and advocacy at Catholic Relief Services, to discuss the 50th anniversary of C.R.S. Rice Bowl—an ecumenical response to the problem of world hunger. Plus: an update on Pope Francis’ health, and the Trump administration terminates the U.S. bishops’ refugee resettlement contract.

Links for further reading: 

Trump administration terminates US bishops’ refugee resettlement contract

I led Catholic Relief Services. I’ve seen USAID projects change lives.

Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life

Pope Francis’ hospitalization: The complex picture, three weeks in

Former USCCB spokesperson Kim Daniels appointed to Vatican commission

The interfaith history of the C.R.S. Rice Bowl

The Mission of C.R.S. Rice Bowl

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