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Ep. 249: It is schism
The Society of St. Pius X released a batch of statements this week related to their plans to consecrate new bishops this summer, without a papal manda...
Bonus: Scatology and eschatology
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JD and Ed answer a canon law question from re...
Ep. 248: Notre Dame, and the end of the great metropolitan turnover
The U.S. Church is approaching the end of its great metropolitan turnover. JD and Ed talk about the characteristics of the newly appointed metropolita...
Bonus: The Olympics and cultural cosplay
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Do you prefer summer or winter Olympics?
Ep. 247: ‘Welcome To New York'
There’s a lot of news out of the Archdiocese of New York this week. JD and Ed talk about the installation of Archbishop Ronald Hicks, and an insurance...
Bonus: Champ Chat?
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JD details his weekend of basketball.
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Bonus: From zero to Jimmy Valvano
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A birthday, and dreams of hunting lionfish.
Ep. 246: Confound it, Cozzens!
JD and Ed ask how U.S. bishops can best catechize in an age of misinformation. Then, they talk about Pope Leo XIV’s recent message about artificial in...
Bonus: Winter storm chat
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A big winter storm is coming, and JD is worri...
Ep. 245: Fasting, abstinence, and what is a parish?
JD and Ed go ‘to the law’ to address two questions floating around the internet this week.
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Bonus: Coach Flynn
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JD details his basketball team’s recent win.<...
Ep. 244: Contra men, and Fulton Sheen
The Vatican is expected to soon announce a date for the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. JD and Ed talk about why Sheen’s initial 2019 beatif...
Bonus: "Hosie"
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JD goes down a linguistic rabbit hole.
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Ep. 243: Let boring be boring, please
Ed is tan, rested, and ready to talk with JD about this week’s consistory in Rome.
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Bonus: Venezuela, with The Pillar's Edgar Beltrán
JD Flynn is joined by Pillar Rome Correspondent Edgar Beltrán to talk about the developing situation in Venezuela, the role of the local Church, and E...
Bonus: Of course Mary knew!
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JD and Ed talk about Christmas carols and gif...
Ep. 242: Sing a new Hicks into being
The Archdiocese of New York has a new archbishop. JD and Ed talk about the bad takes on the appointment that saturated the internet and secular media....
Bonus: Strawberry milk, and a Venezuelan in Rome
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Edgar Beltran joins the bonus episode to talk...
Ep. 241: China, Venezuela, and a slick transition
Ed unpacks the recent installation of a new bishop in China, and what it could signal about the state of the Vatican-China deal.
Then, Pillar R...
Ep. 240: Women deacons, and room for better conversation?
A visit to a Capuchin crypt in Rome sparks a conversation about relics and the resurrection of the body.
A Vatican commission says the Church sh...
An event! A happening!
Don’t miss The Pillar’s Live Show Jubilee Roman Extravaganza!
Thursday, December 4 at the Drunken Ship Pub in Rome’s Piazza Campo de’ Fiori. We’...
Ep. 239: Turkey in Turkey, and unity with the Orthodox
Pope Leo XIV released this week an apostolic letter about ecumenism, in anticipation of his Turkey Day trip to Turkey. JD and Ed talk about the aposto...
Bonus: Live from Notre Dame!
JD and Ed talk about evangelization and tradition at the University of Notre Dame in this live taping of The Pillar Podcast.
This episode featur...
Bonus: What Leo didn't say, and the end of Christendom
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Ed was surprised by what Pope Leo XIV didn’t...
Ep. 238: Pope Leo meets with young people, and the pension crisis
Pope Leo XIV’s virtual conversation today with young people at NCYC sparks a conversation about the evolving relationship Catholics have with the petr...
Bonus: Bishop or bot?
During this week’s live show in Baltimore, JD and the audience compete in a round of ‘Bishop or Bot?’
Ep. 237: Live (and united) from Baltimore!
JD and Ed recap the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore this week.
Then, JD plays a round of French retirement ‘Yes or No.’
Bonus: The catechetical content we need
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Oscar cams. Consider it, bishops!
Are y...
Ep. 236: Blacklisted, and the horse race
JD and Ed look ahead to the elections at the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore next week.
Join JD and Ed next week for two live tapings of...
Bonus: Our Halloween bonus episode
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JD and Ed talk costumes and more in this Hall...
Ep. 235: Maybe it isn’t all signaling?
JD and Ed wrestle with a question about Pope Leo XIV.
Then, JD asks Ed for some advice.
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Bonus: Mr. Big Shot going to the big house
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JD and Ed talk about the gambling and sports...
Ep. 234: It’s not easy being the king of Canada
JD and Ed take a deep dive inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s meeting this week with King Charles III.
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Ep. 233: The end of the Leonine honeymoon
JD recaps his time at SeaWorld. He and Ed talk about a couple more Leonine appointments this week— Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission...
Bonus: A few frustrations
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Ed visits an allergist.
Then, he shares...
Ep. 232: Definitions, and a disposition toward the miraculous
JD and Ed answer a canon law question from a Pillar reader.
The Diocese of Lincoln has said a vibrating relic is “not of supernatural origin.” J...
Ep. 231: A canonical mailbag episode!
JD and Ed answer some questions about marriage from listeners.
This episode is sponsored by The Catholic Family Emergency Binder from Wallet Win...
Bonus: Kids these days!
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Ed shares a story from his Sunday.
Are...
Ep. 230: Our first Leo data points
JD is not boycotting homework. Then, Pope Leo makes some appointments. JD and Ed talk about what the appointments may tell us about Pope Leo and his e...
Ep. 229: What Pope Leo said
JD and Ed talk about recently published excerpts of Pope Leo XIV’s first interviews— including his reflections on the papacy, Vatican finances, and th...