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AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Jesuits and friends come together to look at the world through Ignatian eyes, always striving to live Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- For the Greater Glory of God. Hosted by Mike Jordan Laskey and Eric Clayton. Learn more at jesuits.org. A production of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
Episodes
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow to Overcome Polarization With Amy Uelmen
One of the big challenges in higher education today is polarization in the classroom, which of course reflects the polarization of the country at large…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBuilding Bridges Between Jews and Catholics With Philip Cunningham and Adam Gregerman
A disturbing trend over the past couple of years has been the rise of antisemitism. The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks antisemitic incidents, says 2021…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Ignatian Spirituality Can Make This Year Great with Jim Manney
If you’ve spent much time reading about Ignatian spirituality, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the work of Jim Manney. He has a great book on the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastLearning From Pope Benedict XVI's Post-Papacy With Historian Christopher Bellitto
Over the past couple of weeks, there have been countless reflections on the life and work of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, highlighting his rich theological…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe View from Piscataway Park: Talking Indigenous Justice with Anjela Barnes
Today’s guest is Anjela Barnes, the vice president of the Accokeek Foundation. In her work, she helps preserve and protect Piscataway park, located in southern…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWrestling With God and Poetry With Philip Metres
Poetry can be intimidating and inaccessible. Why even bother? Guest Philip Metres is a living reminder that it’s worth it to bother, worth it to wrestle with…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAdvent, Nine Months Pregnant With Nicole Perone and John Grosso
Earlier this month, Nicole Perone and John Grosso were anxiously awaiting the birth of their first child. Nicole and John are both what you could call…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSix Christmas Movies for the Ignatian Soul with Fr. Jim McDermott, SJ
It’s a great time of year to sit back, relax and watch a Christmas movie. To help you fill out your binge-watching schedule these last few days before…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Examen Like You've Never Seen It Before
In today's episode, meet writer and illustrator team, Paul Mitchell and Katie Broussard, a brother and sister passionate about sharing Ignatian spirituality…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat St. Joseph Can Teach Us This Advent With Sr. Colleen Gibson, SSJ
Saint Joseph is the most mysterious character from the Advent story. He doesn’t say anything and we know pretty much nothing about him, yet there are few…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastInside the Tradition of Jesuit Theater with Fr. George Drance, SJ
Back at some of the very first Jesuit-run schools in the 1500s, teachers would work with students to put on plays. This tradition was called “Jesuit drama,”…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBreaking Bread and Borders with Bishop Mark Seitz on the Jesuit Border Podcast
This week, we’re pleased to bring you another cross-over episode with our colleagues from the Jesuit Border Podcast! Jesuit fathers Brian Strassburger and…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow One Liturgical Vestment Explains the Rise and Fall of Catholic England
A king. A cope. And a faith under siege. Intrigued? Today’s episode covers all this and more. Our guest, Dr. Jan Graffius, the curator of collections at…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow to Practice Faithful Citizenship Beyond Midterm Elections with Thomas Mulloy
With U.S. midterm elections just a week away, we know a lot of people in the U.S. might be wanting a break from politics, a break from excessive political ads…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastReconciling Faith and Things that Go Bump in the Night with Gary Jansen
This is a spooky episode. And that makes sense, right? We’re in that time of year when both secular and spiritual calendars invite us to reflect on the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat Vatican II Means Today with David Gibson
October 11 was the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Vatican II. Pope Francis marked the occasion with a Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, which is also the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastRethinking the Ignatian Contemplative with Rossano Zas Friz de Col, SJ
If you’re a long-time listener of this podcast or long-time friend of Jesuits and Jesuit institutions, the claim made by our guest today might shock you: We…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastJesuit Fr. Tim McCabe Wants to End Chronic Homelessness
Host MegAnne Liebsch first met Fr. Tim McCabe, SJ, at a construction site. Sporting clerics and a hardhat specialty branded with the Pope Francis Center logo…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Ciszek Hall Is The New Frontier In Jesuit Formation
Ciszek Hall is a Jesuit house of First Studies located in the Bronx. Jesuits in formation go there to do exactly what you’d guess: study. But something new is…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Georgetown Sends Nursing Students to Lourdes with Dr. Sarah Vittone
If you were going to make a list of the most demanding and important jobs, nurses would be right near the top. The pandemic has revealed how much we ask of our…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy People of Faith Shouldn’t Be NIMBYs With Addison Del Mastro
If you live in the suburbs, you’re probably used to hopping in your car to run pretty much every errand, even if you just need to get cold medicine at the drug…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGod and the Big Bang with Astrophysicist Fr. Adam Hincks, SJ
The stunning new images of outer space from the Webb Space Telescope might prompt people of faith to ponder big questions: How do I square my belief in the Big…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat Tolkien's Manuscripts Teach Us About Storytelling
From the Jesuits of Canada and the United States, this is AMDG – and I’m Eric Clayton. I was introduced to J.R.R. Tolkien in seventh grade. This was the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastA Crash Course in Catholic Economics with Tony Annett
Catholic Social Teaching is sometimes called the best-kept secret of the Catholic faith. But not anymore! Today host MegAnne Liebsch talks to Dr. Tony Annett…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Star Wars Expands Our Theology with Fr. Ryan Duns, SJ & Dr. Ben Espinoza
"Star Wars" is a window into a larger universe, a universe that has the same flawed characters, hope-filled adventures and deep galaxy-altering questions as…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFrom Advising Martin Sheen to Joining the Jesuits: Joe Kraemer SJ's Vocation Story
Way back in June, 17 Jesuits from the US and Haiti were ordained to the priesthood. One of them was Joe Kraemer. And like many of his fellow Jesuits, as the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Religious Freedom Matters Worldwide with Stephen Schneck
Today’s guest is Stephen Schneck, a political philosopher by training and a well-known advocate for Catholic social justice teachings in public life. He spent…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSaint Ignatius and Our Never-Ending Call to Conversion with Paola Pascual-Ferrá and Seán Bray
The Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola on July 31 will mark the end of the Ignatian Year, through which we have been celebrating the 500th anniversary of Ignatius…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow The Sacred Heart Helps Us Close The Ignatian Year with Joe Laramie, SJ
July 31st, 2022 ends our journey through the Ignatian Year. To mark this important moment in the life of the global Society of Jesus, Fr. General Arturo Sosa…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Freedom of Missing Out with Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ
You’ve heard of FOMO – the “fear of missing out.” You’ve probably experienced it, too. It’s paralyzing. You find yourself trapped, asking the same question…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCan Investments Save the Environment?
Today on AMDG, host MegAnne Liebsch talks about how investment advocacy can stop climate change. Stick with us! Investing might sound boring, but the people…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Young People Leave the Church and What We Can Do About It with Tracey Lamont
Why are so many young Catholics leaving the church? And what we can do to stop that trend and maybe even reverse it? There are lots of Catholic scholars…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBreaking Ground at Holy Cross with President Vincent Rougeau
The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, was founded in 1843. It’s the oldest Jesuit and Catholic college in New England and one of the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Thomas Aquinas Is Really A Jesuit with Bill McCormick, SJ
There are two temptations – at least! – that we often fall into when it comes to looking at our current state of politics. On the one hand, we may be tempted…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThree Fascinating Jesuits Who Could Change Your Life With Robert Ellsberg
One cool thing about the Jesuits is the huge number of incredible men who have served the Lord so faithfully over the centuries. A lot of these guys are so…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Ignatian Spirituality Helps You Share Your Story with Author Christine Marie Eberle
As a writer of spiritual nonfiction, one might wonder: Do any of these seemingly random stories, these anecdotes and details and bits of personal history…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGloria Purvis is a Pro-Life, Anti-Racism Prophet
When a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked last month, the person host Mike Jordan Laskey most wanted to interview was…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat Inspires Fr. Jim Martin's Outreach to LGBTQ Catholics
If you head over to the new website, outreach.faith, you’ll find these words to greet you: “Welcome. God loves you.” (At least, that’s what it says as of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow to Build a Non-Profit from Scratch with Annie Phoenix
After college and a stint as an elementary school teacher, Annie Phoenix was looking for volunteer opportunities with prison education programs. But there…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCould Women Be Deacons in the Catholic Church? With Casey Stanton
Casey Stanton is the founding co-director of a new initiative called Discerning Deacons, which is engaging Catholics from all over the world around the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWant More Joy? Let's Promote More Vocations with Andrew Laguna, SJ
Today’s guest, Fr. Andrew Laguna, SJ, is a vocation promoter in the US West Jesuit Province. The term “vocation promoter” is probably one few of us have heard…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow to Cultivate a “Spirituality of Synodality” with Fr. James Hanvey, SJ
As you might have heard, the Catholic Church is in the middle of a long, global consultation process on the theme of “synodality,” a fancy-sounding theological…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat Fr. Matt Malone, SJ, Has Learned in a Decade Leading America Magazine
Here’s an understatement: The last decade has been a challenging time for legacy print media. Heck, it’s been a challenging time for online media. How many of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow “Hierarchicalism” Hurts the Church (And What To Do About It) With FR. James Keenan, SJ
If you were going to make a list of the Catholic church’s problems today, maybe the word “clericalism” would be high on your list. We toss that word around a…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWelcoming Ukrainian Refugees to Poland with Fr. Damian Czerniak, SJ
On a given day, Fr. Damian Czerniak, SJ, faces a laundry list of responsibilities: finding Ukrainian refugees temporary housing, providing psychosocial…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSaint Peter's University President Eugene Cornacchia on a Magical March Madness
Welcome to a special March Madness episode of AMDG. As of Thursday afternoon, there are three Jesuit teams left in the women’s and men’s NCAA basketball…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy We're Called To Settle Into Grief with Kathy Powell
Kathy Powell is currently the Creative Director, working with Becky Eldredge, LLC | Ignatian Ministries. But ever since the loss of her first child, Francis…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCeltic Spirituality Isn't Just For St. Patrick's Day with Julianne Stanz
This week, we celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick…St. Patrick’s Day. But too often, we reduce this day to a round of green beer and shamrock-themed t-shirts…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFaith and Resistance in Ukraine with Theologian Pavlo Smytsnyuk
All of us have been watching Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with feelings of horror and sadness and helplessness. There have also been incredibly moving stories…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastDoing Lent After Two Straight Years of Lenten Vibes with Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ
Well, Lent is here. Hooray. To be honest, it feels like the last thing we need right now is 40 days of fasting and penance and just the general heaviness that…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Ignatian Spirituality Can Make You a Better Leader with Seán Sanford
One of the most interesting developments in the Jesuit world these days is the emergence of a field called “Ignatian leadership.” The concept comes from the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThis Is The Episode That Changes Your Life: Why Micro Shifts Make Big Change with Gary Jansen
Lent is only a few weeks away. But before you panic about what to do during these upcoming forty days of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, listen to the advice…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBehind the Scenes of Dorothy Day’s Sainthood Cause with Jeff Korgen
Dorothy Day is among the most inspiring, challenging and holy American Catholics ever. As the Jesuit peace activist Daniel Berrigan said, Dorothy "lived as if…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHer Uncle, the Future Jesuit Saint: Ana Grande on Blessed Rutilio Grande, SJ
Ana Grande's great uncle was Fr. Rutilio Grande, SJ, a Jesuit from El Salvador who was just beatified last month. (Beatification is the final step before…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastResponding to God's Call: An Audio Retreat, Part 4
Listen to our new Ignatian retreat, a four-part series of ten minute audio modules, written and narrated by Ryan Carroll, a PhD student at the University of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Journalist John W. Miller Quit the Wall Street Journal and Made a Documentary
John W. Miller was a successful journalist with the Wall Street Journal, covering all sorts of topics all over the planet. A few years ago, he gave it all up…
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Responding to God's Call: An Audio Retreat, Part 3
Listen to our new Ignatian retreat, a four-part series of ten minute audio modules, written and narrated by Ryan Carroll, a PhD student at the University of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Rutilio Grande's Struggle with Mental Health Matters
This Saturday, January 22, Father Rutilio Grande, SJ – along with laymen Manuel Solórzano and Nelson Rutilio Lemus – will be beatified in San Salvador, El…
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Responding to God's Call: An Audio Retreat, Part 2
Listen to our new Ignatian retreat, a four-part series of ten minute audio modules, written and narrated by Ryan Carroll, a PhD student at the University of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCannonballs and Companionship with Ignatian Spirituality Project
Growing up in an abusive household, Issac Sneed wasn’t allowed to have friends. He learned to fend for himself. As an adult, he kept people at arm’s length…