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Ep. 84 - Forward & Backward
Season 1 Episode 84
One quality of a Catholic poet is a heightened capacity to see—not just into the future, but into the past as well.
On this episode, poet Paul Mariani…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 83 - ‘An Early Spring’
Season 1 Episode 83
In the American Church today, few figures are as outspoken about the need for Catholics to treat LGBTQ people with love, respect, and compassion as J…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 82 - ‘Broken Places’
Season 1 Episode 82
Few living writers speak as eloquently and incisively about the terrible contradictions of armed conflict as Marine Corps veteran and award-winning a…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 81 - Is This What We Wanted?
Season 1 Episode 81
It’s been just over a week since Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion appearing to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press.
On thi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 80 - McMorrow’s Way
Season 1 Episode 80
On April 19, Mallory McMorrow, Democratic State Senator of Michigan, delivered a speech in the chamber of the Michigan State Capitol. It instantly st…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 79 - Beyond Consent
Season 1 Episode 79
As the #MeToo movement was unfolding, Washington Post columnist Christine Emba began asking questions about the broader health of American sexual cul…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 78 - Unholy War
Season 1 Episode 78
While the humanitarian costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to make headlines, the war also reveals contemporary religious concerns around …
4 years ago
Ep. 77 - Democracy or Empire?
Season 1 Episode 77
It’s been three weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky continues to plead for Western aid, the situation…
4 years ago
Ep. 76 - Will Catholic Colleges Embrace Synodality?
Season 1 Episode 76
Why haven’t Catholic colleges and universities in the United States more urgently engaged Pope Francis’s repeated calls to practice “synodality”?
Afte…
4 years ago
Ep. 75 - Love Entails Loss
Season 1 Episode 75
Shortly before the death of her father, New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz met the woman she would marry. These opposite experiences prompted Sch…
4 years, 1 month ago