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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 PodcastResponding to God's Call: An Audio Retreat, Part 1
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…
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3 Ignatian Spiritual Principles to Start 2022 Off Right
Hosts Mike Jordan Laskey and Eric Clayton kick off the new year by reflecting on some Ignatian spiritual principles that can guide us as we navigate 2022.
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastIntroducing the Jesuit Border Podcast
This week on AMDG, we're bringing you a special cross-over episode from our colleagues at the Jesuit Border Podcast. Hosted by two Jesuits, Fathers Brian…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastLetting Go of Christmas Pressure with Simcha Fisher
Christmas is a weird time of year. No other season is such a potent combination of stuff happening. You have family traditions and maybe drama…definitely a…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWe Invited Mary Karr to Do a Poetry Reading and a Retreat Broke Out
Acclaimed memoirist and poet Mary Karr joined the Jesuit Book Club to talk about her most recent poetry collection, "Tropic of Squalor." The Zoom gathering…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAdvent, Ignatian-Style with Jesuit Conference President Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ
Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ, began his ministry as president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States in September. He comes to us in DC after seven…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFinding God at a Rock Show with Tom Beaudoin
Why do some "secular" music or art experiences feel sacred? Guest Tom Beaudoin, Ph.D., is a theology professor at Fordham University has spent a lot of his…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGiving Thanks for an Empowered Feminine Spirituality with Shannon Evans
Thanksgiving is a time of tradition. How we celebrate the holiday today probably has a lot to do with how we celebrated the holiday growing up. The foods we…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat If Jesus Kept A Diary? On Prayer and Storytelling with Bill Cain, SJ
Today's episode is about storytelling, imagination and prayer -- three things St. Ignatius of Loyola saw as interconnected. Fr. Bill Cain, SJ, has a rather…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSynodality Starts with Coffee with Sr. Nathalie Becquart
Last month, Pope Francis officially launched a two-year process of reflection and listening called a Synod of Bishops. Synods bring church leaders together to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastMeet Jesuit Saints Not Named Ignatius with Tim O'Brien, SJ
The early days of November give us ample opportunity to celebrate holy women and men. November 1st is All Saints’ Day; November 2nd is All Souls Day. And…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSharing the Gospel in Clay and Bronze with Sculptor Timothy Schmalz
The sculpture looks so much like a homeless man, people have called the cops on it. It’s a life-size sculpture of a person huddled under a blanket on a park…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastActress Siobhan Fallon Hogan Brings Faith to the Big Screen
Jesuit-educated actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan has had an incredibly busy acting career over the last three decades, from appearing in Saturday Night Live and…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGod and Basketball with ESPN's Mike Breen
The National Basketball Association season starts next week. If you flip on a marquee matchup on ESPN or ABC sometime this fall, you’ll probably hear the voice…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHonoring Indigenous Peoples' Day with Rosella Kinoshameg
"Every child matters," reads Rosella Kinoshameg's fluorescent orange tee-shirt. The shirt is part of a national movement to recognize the harmful history of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe US Catholic Church is Shrinking (and Other Myths) with Fr. Tom Gaunt, SJ
Today’s guest might make you reexamine everything you think you know about the current state of the Catholic Church in the USA. Fr. Tom Gaunt, SJ, is a Jesuit…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Ignatian Year Invites Us To Reach Out To Trauma Victims — Rob McChesney, SJ, Tells Us How
During this Ignatian Year—this 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius—a lot has been said about “cannonball moments.” The phrase comes from…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastReimagining the Story of St. Ignatius: A Conversation on Storytelling
There’s a series of Star Wars books called From A Certain Point of View. Two have been released to date, each to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: A…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Beauty and Mystery of the Wilderness with Nick Ripatrazone
Back in the innocent days of February 2020, host Mike Jordan Laskey sent a Twitter message to author Nick Ripatrazone in reply to a tweet Nick posted about…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGold Medalist Katie Ledecky Lives Her Faith as a Champion for Refugees
Nobody in the history of swimming has been as good at freestyle as our guest today is. Katie Ledecky is the literal GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), as she is the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHaiti Revisited: A Conversation with Nate Radomski of Magis Americas
It was only a few weeks ago that Fr. Jean Denis Saint-Felix — the superior of the Jesuit community in Haiti – was our guest on this podcast. He shared with us…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastIgnatian Pilgrimage? There's An App For That with Fr. Casey Beaumier, SJ
It’s cliché to say but Ignatian Pilgrimage: There’s an app for that. It’s called “Journey with Ignatius” – and it’s a cool new project developed by the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Mapping the Global Church Matters with Molly Burhans
It’s not every day you crack open a copy of the New Yorker Magazine and find a long profile of an incredibly impressive, inspiring young Catholic woman. But…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastIgnatian Spirituality Meets Urban Planning with Jamie Kralovec
Jamie Kralovec’s work is deeply rooted in his faith and Ignatian spirituality, but he’s not a theologian or a youth minister. Jamie is an urban planner by…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCelebrate the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola with Poet Cameron Bellm
On July 31st, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits. And this year, the feast…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat Anti-Nuclear Activist Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ, Sacrifices for His Faith
What are you willing to risk for what you believe? Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ, is a peace activist and a member of the Plowshares movement, a largely Catholic…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastA Reason for Hope in Haiti with Jean Denis Saint-Felix, SJ
On July 7, one week ago today, in the early hours of the morning, the president of Haiti, Jovenal Moise, was assassinated in his home. The exact details of his…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPulitzer Prize Winner Marcia Chatelain on Fast Food in Black America
Last month, Georgetown University professor of history Dr. Marcia Chatelain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book “Franchise: the Golden Arches in Black…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Legacy of Bill Barry, SJ, with Vinita Wright & Jim Martin, SJ
When Fr. Bill Barry, SJ, passed away late in 2020 at the age of 90 years old, he left behind a long and storied legacy as a spiritual director, author and…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastMeet Carlos Smith: Award-Winning Poet, Top Debater, Loyola High School Grad
June is high school graduation season, and today's guest is one of the most impressive grads from the Jesuit Schools Network: Carlos Smith, who just finished…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastDescendants of Jesuit Slaveholding Are Pursuing Truth and Racial Healing
In the year 1838, the Jesuits of the Maryland Province sold at least 272 enslaved men, women and children to a plantation owner in Louisiana, in part to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFive Great Things About Being Catholic with Thomas Groome
As more and more of us are going back to Mass for the first time in over a year, today's episode is a celebration of our faith. Today's guest is the renowned…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat Solidarity With India Means Today with Fr. Siji Chacko, SJ
Today’s episode is a challenging one. We take a deep dive into the tragic events gripping the people of India, and we reflect on the tremendous loss of life…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy You Should Take To The Streets This Ignatian Year — And Go On Retreat
Finding time to go on retreat is a challenge — even when there's not a global pandemic to contend with. But what if there was a way to go on retreat without…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Red Cloud Indian School Is Confronting Its Past with Maka Black Elk
For Maka Black Elk, being a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe on Pine Ridge Reservation confers a great responsibility. And it forms the bedrock of Black Elk’s…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSister Helen Prejean Wants Your Help Ending the Death Penalty
Listen to today’s show, and you’ll learn at least one incontrovertible fact: Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, is an absolute dynamo. She has spent close to four…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow St. Ignatius Can Guide Your Return to Normal with Dr. Debra Mooney
The arrival of more-normal life feels close now, at least here in the US. A lot of us might feel tempted to dive back in, to schedule gatherings and buy…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFaith and Science with Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ, the Pope's Astronomer
A fun fact about the Society of Jesus is that there are more than 30 craters on the moon named for Jesuits, which is a great reminder that faith and science…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFaith and Prophetic Witness with NETWORK Lobby Director Mary J. Novak
Our guest this week is Mary J. Novak. She's the new executive director of NETWORK Lobby, a DC-based social justice advocacy organization formed by a coalition…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow PTSD Impacted the Catholic Church with Jeff von Arx, SJ
When you think about the Catholic Church, you may be tempted to think in terms that are outside of history – the Church is more or less the same since Jesus’…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Catholicism Infuses the Rock Songs of The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn
The Hold Steady plays big, loud rock 'n' roll that sounds like the best bar band you’ve ever heard. But if you listen carefully to the lyrics, you’ll hear…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAlong the Way for Lent: Episode 8
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent. Danielle Harrison, co-director of the Slavery, History…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Getting Ignatius' Story Right Matters with Bart Geger, SJ
If you have had any encounter with Jesuits – at a school, a parish, a nonprofit – you probably know a little about St. Ignatius of Loyola. You may know he got…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 7
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent.
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Jesuit Basketball Got This Good with ESPN's John Gasaway
This is a special edition of the show we’re rushing to get in before this weekend’s Sweet 16 in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Why the hurry? Because…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Fantastical Stories Can Lead Us To God with Br. Brent Gordon, SJ
Perhaps you're the kind of person who consumed a lot of science fiction and fantasy stories growing up. Stories like the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 6
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent.
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastScripture and Songwriting with John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
Musician and author John Darnielle is the creative force behind the Mountain Goats, the critically acclaimed and deeply loved indie rock band he has led…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 5 (ft. Pádraig Ó Tuama)
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent. Special guest Pádraig Ó Tuama. Tune in on Saturdays for…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPersistence on the US-Mexico Border with Joanna Williams
Joanna Williams has the kind of energy that sucks you in. Just talking to her is like getting a jolt of motivation. She’s passionate about social change and…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 4 (ft. James Martin, SJ)
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent. Special guest Fr. James Martin, SJ. Tune in on Saturdays…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Mark Kennedy Shriver's New Book "10 Hidden Heroes" Empowers Kids
Mark Kennedy Shriver has spent a lot of time with incredibly impressive people. His father was Sargent Shriver, who founded the Peace Corps, was the architect…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 3
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent. Tune in on Saturdays for new episodes.
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFrom "Seinfeld" to the Society of Jesus with Fr. Radmar Jao, SJ
If you have a Hulu subscription or the DVDs of "Seinfeld," pull up episode 16 of the eighth season. It’s called "The Pothole." A few minutes in to the episode…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 2
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent. Tune in on Saturdays for new episodes.
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastLearning to Pray this Lent with Fr. James Martin, SJ
Prayer is one of the pillars of Lenten spirituality. But it’s hard, right? We’re constantly tempted to ask, “Am I doing this right? Am I doing this enough? Is…
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Along the Way for Lent: Episode 1
Matt Wooters, SJ, and Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, are back to journey with us along the way this Lent. Tune in on Saturdays for new episodes.
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFinding Hope in Suffering with Joe Hoover, SJ
Last year was a tough year. This year has gotten off to a rocky start. Many of us – on more than one occasion – have thrown up our hands and said, “Why God?…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Beautiful and Balanced Catholic Media Can Help the Church with Fr. Alan Fogarty, SJ
Fr. Alan Fogarty, SJ, has been the CEO of Salt + Light Media, a Catholic TV network and media company based in Toronto, since August. Fr. Fogarty doesn’t have…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastConstructing Ignatian Spirituality with Fr. John O'Malley, SJ
If you’re a long-time listener of this podcast, a student at a Jesuit school or a member of a Jesuit parish, then the term “Ignatian spirituality” is probably…