Jesuitical
Welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast for young Catholics hosted by two young, lay editors at America—Zac Davis and Ashley McKinless. Each episode features a guest who offers a unique perspective on faith, culture or current events. We also bring you some of the top (and maybe more obscure) Catholic news of the week. And we'll ask: Where do we find God in all this?
226
Father James Martin on praying in quarantine
Bonus Quarantine Ep.6
26 min
227
Meet the 30-year-old priest anointing coronavir...
Father Michael Trail had administered the anointing of the sick many times in his first three years as a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Usually, he would sit at the bedside and hold the hand of a person nearing death while family and other...
42 min
228
What it’s like to be pregnant during Covid-19
Bonus Quarantine Ep.5
25 min
229
Lessons from West Africa’s Ebola response for C...
In late February, when the coronavirus still seemed like a far-off threat to many Americans, officials in West African nations began to prepare their public health response: They brought out thermometers, protective equipment and handwashing stations....
34 min
230
A Jesuit reflects on coronavirus quarantine in ...
Bonus Quarantine Ep.4
26 min
231
The Friar who won “The Great American Baking Sh...
Amateur chefs and wanna-be bakers have a lot more time to spend in the kitchen thanks to stay-at-home measures meant to slow the spread to the coronavirus. And this week’s guest has some great tips for upping your recipe game. Brother Andrew...
44 min
232
Walking with Mary Magdalene to the tomb on East...
Bonus Quarantine Ep.3
23 min
233
The coronavirus poem that went viral. Ep. 136
Laura Fanucci was up in the middle of the night with her 5-week-old newborn when the words came to her: “When this is all over....” She wrote the poem on her phone and when she posted it on Instagram the next morning it caught fire. Politicians,...
41 min
234
Picture this: What it’s like to walk with Jesus...
Bonus Quarantine Ep.2
34 min
235
How the Catholic Church adapted during the Blac...
It’s not really fair or responsible to draw comparisons between the Black Plague and our current coronavirus pandemic. Our situation pales in comparison to 50 million deaths, or roughly 50% of Europe’s population alone in the mid-14th century. But...
43 min
236
Bonus Episode: Jesuit leadership lessons during...
Bonus Quarantine Ep.1
28 min
237
One bishop’s response to the coronavirus. Ep. 134
No priest becomes a bishop imagining he will one day tell his people not to come to Mass. But across the United States and much of the world, bishops have had to make the heartrending decision to shutter their churches and cancel the public...
38 min
238
Catholic health care during the coronavirus pan...
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips treated the United States’s first coronavirus patient. She is the chief clinical officer and executive vice president at Providence St. Joseph Health, a Catholic hospital located outside Seattle. We asked her about where we...
38 min
239
Is diet culture obscuring Lent? Ep. 132
With Lent in full-swing and warmer weather around the corner, many Catholics are probably thinking about food and their bodies more than normally. But what if the way that we’re approaching fasting and dieting is harmful—especially to our...
50 min
240
What’s it like to say Mass on death row? Ep.131
For the past 10 years, George Williams, S.J., has passed through metal doors plastered with the word “CONDEMNED” to minister to the men on death row at San Quentin State Prison, located on the north side of the San Francisco Bay. As the Jesuit...
30 min
241
Meet the Louisiana priest behind a 100-gallon t...
It is a beautiful thing when the sacred and the quirky come together in such a way that only Catholicism can arrange. Filling a crop duster plane with holy water and blessing an entire small town definitely qualifies as sacred and quirky in the best...
49 min
242
The untold history of black nuns in the United ...
Ask most people what they know about black Catholic sisters, and they will probably murmur something about “Sister Act.” Dr. Shannen Dee Williams did, too, until she began digging into communities’ archives and uncovering the previously hidden...
23 min
243
Can Jesuit spirituality save our politics?
Cyrus Habib is perhaps most interesting (and inspiring) politician you haven’t heard of—yet—unless, of course, you listened to our interview with him back in May 2018. Amid a chaotic primary season and after a polarizing impeachment trial, we...
28 min
244
Your Catholic guide to the Oscars 2020. Ep. 129
With two dramatized popes up for Best Actor () and Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Hopkins), are this year’s Oscars the most Catholic yet? To find out, we spoke with America’s film critic, , about the nominees for the 2020 Academy Awards, airing...
30 min
245
What it’s like to get to know your bishop on pi...
It’s not surprising that most Catholics—especially young Catholics—don’t personally know their bishops. Sure, they might have put some oil on your forehead at confirmation and made you worry about what it would do to your acne problem (this is...
37 min
246
A Catholic veteran on faith in war. Ep. 127
When Pete Lucier deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 he believed in the war and the Marine Corps and violence. It was only after returning to civilian life that he began to question not only the reasons for the United States’ Middle East wars but his...
34 min
247
Learning the stories of the enslaved people own...
Awareness of the Catholic Church’s—and the Jesuits’— role in slavery in the United States has grown in recent years thanks to reporting and research from , and . But there is still much that remains unknown about the enslaved people owned,...
32 min
248
Dorothy Day’s granddaughter on prayer, prison a...
In April of last year, seven Catholic activists broke into the naval submarine base in Kings Bay, Ga., home to several nuclear-armed submarines. Inside, they carried out nonviolent actions to protest the U.S. nuclear weapon’s program: They spilled...
38 min
249
A workout program for you, from the formerly in...
Are you working out for the body of a god? What about the body of a convict? Meet Coss Marte, our guest this week. After being arrested at 19 for running a multimillion dollar drug trade in New York City, Coss was sent to prison. There, doctors told...
19 min
250
The one where Olga says goodbye. Ep. 124
It’s the end of an era. As you heard on last week’s episode, our cohost Olga Segura is leaving America Media, and therefore Jesuitical, to freelance full-time and work on a book on race, the Black Lives Matter movement and the Catholic Church,...
28 min