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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 Podcast7 Last Words: You Will Be With Me In Paradise
"Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise" This is the second of the 7 Last Words of Jesus, and the second in our Lenten audio reflections. Fr…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPersistent Hope: How Jesuits Are Accompanying Refugees in Jordan
Since the time of Ignatius, the Jesuits have been on mission. The legacies of Jesuit missionaries like Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci inspire generation after…
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7 Last Words: Father, Forgive Them
"Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." This is the first of the 7 Last Words of Jesus, and the first in our Lenten audio reflections. Fr. Tim…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAt the Crossroads of Black History Month and Lent with dr. timone davis
We’ve all heard the expression: God works in mysterious ways. It sounds a little cheesy, a little trite. But the conversation you’re about to hear is a result…
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7 Last Words: Ash Wednesday Is Nearly Here
Ash Wednesday is THIS Wednesday. And that means we're nearly at the beginning of the season of Lent. Each week of Lent, AMDG will feature reflections from Fr…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFather Arturo Sosa, SJ, Jesuit Superior General
Our very special guest is Fr. Arturo Sosa, who is the 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus -- the leader of the Jesuits worldwide. Fr. Sosa is…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAn Ignatian Solution to Burnout
We Americans are obsessed with work. We want meaning in our work. We want work to align perfectly with our values. It’s a badge of honor to tell people how…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastIgnatian Spirituality at Work with KIND Snacks CEO Mike Barkley
One great thing about Ignatian spirituality is how practical it is: Faith isn’t a separate part of your life you observe only on Sundays. Instead, Jesuit…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSpeaking Up for the Unborn: The 2020 Ignatian Mass for Life
Last week, hundreds of students from Jesuit high schools and colleges from around the country came to Washington, DC, to speak up for the unborn at the March…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Fr. Steve Katsouros, SJ, is Transforming Jesuit Higher Education
How do we ensure that Jesuit higher education is accessible to everyone? The cost of college tuition has been in the news lately—and on the presidential debate…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAn Ignatian Examen for MLK Day
On January 20, 2020, the United States celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. King is so often remembered for his dream of racial equality, so eloquently…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBaltimore's Legacy of Jesuit Education: A Conversation with Fr. Bill Watters, SJ
A Jesuit vocation can mean a lot of things: there are Jesuits in medicine, astronomy, international relief and development, journalism, publishing and so much…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastIgnatian Tips for 2020 Resolutions with Spiritual Author Vinita Wright
January 1 is a day of resolutions, promises, and commitments to form better habits, get back into shape, pick up an old hobby. January 17—more or less—is when…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHoly Families Are Still On The Move: A Christmas Conversation with Joan Rosenhauer of JRS/USA
There’s a lot of movement in Scripture during this Christmas season. God comes among humanity through the Incarnation. The Holy Family travels to Bethlehem for…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Gospel According to Star Wars: Fr. Jim McDermott, SJ, On Faith, Compassion & Hope
This is the podcast you're looking for. Full disclosure on today’s episode: it’s a deep dive into the cultural and spiritual impacts of Star Wars — just in…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastEl Salvador's Long Road to Justice: A Conversation with Almudena Bernabeu
The Prophet Habakkuk writes: “For the vision is a witness for the appointed time, a testimony to the end; it will not disappoint. If it delays, wait for it, it…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastScarred, Sacred Space: Ministry in Lebanon with Fr. Dan Corrou, SJ
A few weeks ago, the Jesuit Dan Corrou went to Mass like any other Sunday. But the setting was far from ordinary. The Mass was being held in the Church of St…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastA Disposition, Not Just A Holiday: Dr. Monica Bartlett on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is the time each year when we, as a family, a community, a country, express, well, thankfulness—often, as a prerequisite to indulging in mashed…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFinding God in Twitter: Colin Crowell Applies Jesuit Education to Social Media
Twitter is a huge social media service with over 300 million active users, including one very active user with a high profile who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPrize-Winning Filmmaker Fr. Mark Bosco, SJ, Wants You to Read Flannery O'Connor
When the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns thinks you’ve made a movie about author Flannery O’Connor worthy of a $200,000 prize awarded in his name, you’re doing…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFr. Sean Carroll, SJ, is Welcoming Migrants on the US/Mexico Border
There are not many areas of the country that are discussed by more ill-informed talking heads than the US-Mexico border. But when guest Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFr. James Martin, SJ, on the Daily Examen and His Audience with Pope Francis
You might think of this penultimate week in October as the time to buy Halloween candy before the good stuff is gone, but here at the Jesuit Conference we are…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBaseball and the Spiritual Life with Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ
Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ, is the provincial superior of the Jesuits West Province of the United States. In English, that means he leads the Jesuits in the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWorld Day Against the Death Penalty with Fr. George Williams, SJ, and Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy
The United States is sadly unique among developed Western countries in that we still regularly execute people. And capital punishment has been in the political…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastTalking Church Councils Plus the Jesuit Novitiate Circa 1946 with Fr. John O'Malley, SJ
Fr. John O’Malley joined the Jesuits in 1946, right after World War II and more than a decade before the second Vatican council was announced. You could say…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastDrafting Saints with Fr. Paddy Gilger and Fr. Eric Sundrup
Jesuit priests Fr. Paddy Gilger and Fr. Eric Sundrup are the hosts of a wonderful new YouTube show called "Jesuit Autocomplete" from America Media. In each…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastMarquette President Mike Lovell Wants the University to Help Heal Brokenness
This is our second of two episodes with a university president as we celebrate the beginning of the academic year. Be sure to check out our last conversation…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPresident Tania Tetlow is Blazing a Trail at Loyola University New Orleans
Tania Tetlow is a trailblazer. She is the first female president in the history of Loyola University New Orleans. She is the first layperson to serve in that…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSister Jean Reflects on Her 100th Birthday
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM, took the world by storm as the chaplain for the 2018 Loyola Chicago Final Four men's basketball team. She turns 100 on…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy this Jesuit Swam Six Miles (!) with Very Little Training
Last month, Matt Wooters, a Jesuit brother from the Midwest Province, decided he was going to try and swim six miles for a birthday fundraiser benefiting the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHere I Am, Lord: 50 Years of Music with the St. Louis Jesuits
If you’ve been to Catholic Mass in the United States at some point over the past few decades, you’ve probably sung at least one piece of music by a group of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastMalcolm Gladwell on Thinking Like a Jesuit
When best-selling author and public intellectual Malcolm Gladwell announced he was doing a three-part podcast on thinking like a Jesuit, we had to learn more…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow World Cup Soccer is a Source of Solidarity and Spiritual Growth
The Women’s World Cup is in full swing in France, with more elite teams vying for the championship than ever before. One of the biggest soccer fans around is…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWorld Refugee Day: Fighting for Justice with Giulia McPherson of Jesuit Refugee Service
Every minute, 24 people are forced to leave their home because of war, persecution or violence. Experts estimate that there are more people who have been…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAn atheist went on a Buddhist retreat and wound up a Jesuit priest
If you had met Fr. Ted Penton, SJ, right before turn of the millennium and told him he’d be ordained a Jesuit priest in 2019, he wouldn’t have believed you…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat the biblical prophets might think of Amazon with Br. Joe Hoover, SJ
As my wife would tell you, I am a compulsive Amazon shopper. A few taps of my thumb and voila – diapers or granola bars or a massaging seat cover for the car…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastProcessing the Notre-Dame Fire with Architecture Professor Fr. Gilbert Sunghera, SJ
On Monday afternoon here on the East Coast, the horrifying photos and videos began to pour in: the Notre-Dame Cathedral was on fire. The international…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPope Francis' "Christus Vivit" and Drafting Books of the Bible with Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ
Host Mike Jordan Laskey chats with his former college roommate, Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, about Fr. Michael's vocation promotion ministry, Pope Francis' new…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFr. Pedro Arrupe is on the Path to Sainthood
This past winter, the cause for sainthood for Fr. Pedro Arrupe was officially opened in Rome. Fr. Arrupe served as the Jesuits’ superior general from 1965 to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSix Years of Pope Francis with Fr. Tim Kesicki, SJ
Six years ago this week, an Argentinian Jesuit named Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope. That's a pretty good chunk of time to get your priorities in…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBeing a Jesuit in Japan with Fr. Jody Magtoto, SJ
February 6 is the Feast of St. Paul Miki and Companions. Paul Miki was a Japanese Jesuit brother who was martyred with 25 other Catholics in Japan in 1597. Fr…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFr. Jeremy Zipple, SJ on Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year
"Justice" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. What does that word mean to Jesuits? Mike Jordan Laskey from the Jesuit Conference called up Fr. Jeremy…