The Pillar Podcast
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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!
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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...
Bonus: God loves JD
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JD has a story for Ed.
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Bonus: A bonus bonus?!
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This is the west.
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Bonus: Overheard, in Terminal 5
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Ep. 228: Cooperation with China, and 'Traditionis custodes'
Ed talks about reactions to Pope Leo XIV’s suppression of two dioceses and creation of a new diocese in mainland China. Then, the Traditional Latin Ma...
Ep. 227: What is your horizon?
Ed is joined this week by Pillar columnist Stephen White to look ahead to this weekend’s canonizations of Bls. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis....
Ep. 226: Minneapolis and America’s royal wedding
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JD and Ed react to the news out of Minneapolis this week, reflect on the lasting effects on the c...
Bonus: Draft day, continued
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JD and Ed share the rest of their draft picks...
Ep. 225: It's draft day, baby!
JD and Ed speculate how the first American pope might mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Then, they share their pick...
Bonus: Pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot.
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It’s too hot in Rome.
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Ep. 224: No silver bullet, and Pope Leo’s first 100 days
Ed is on vacation— so JD is joined this week by Pillar Rome correspondent Edgar Beltrán to talk about declining Catholic identity in the United States...
Bonus: Polygamy and the LDS church
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Are there Mormon liturgical wars? Then, baseb...
Ep. 223: The question of polygamy
JD is in Salt Lake City, sparking a conversation with Ed about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Then, the bishops conferences of...
Ep. 222: Newman and me
St. John Henry Newman will soon be declared a Doctor of the Church. JD and Ed talk about their own connections to the saint— and why everyone can love...
Bonus: Questions and no answers about Detroit
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JD and Ed do not know what is happening at th...
Ep. 221: Pope Leo XIV, in Peru
JD is in the Peruvian city of Chiclayo this week to learn all about Pope Leo XIV's time as bishop.
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Bonus: An impromptu business meeting
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Ed makes a Pillar proposition.
Are you...
Ep. 220: A false sense of mercy
How can we measure the success of the Eucharistic Revival? Then, JD and Ed talk about the case of Father Carlo Alberto Capella. JD asks if more accuse...