Ranked #1
Episode 17: Dorothy Day play; Joan Chittister calls for politics for the common good
Episode 17: Dorothy Day play; Joan Chittister calls for politics for the common good
In this episode, NCR Bertelsen intern Shireen Korkzan and playwright Patty McCarty discuss McCarty's play "This Other Lo... Read more
30 Jun 2017
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26mins
Ranked #2
Episode 11: The Keepers and Knights of Columbus
Episode 11: The Keepers and Knights of Columbus
In this episode, Brittany talks to Sr. Rose Pacatte about the new Netflix documentary series "The Keepers," which focuse... Read more
19 May 2017
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24mins
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Ranked #3
Episode 27: A conversation on sexuality, gender and the Catholic Church
Episode 27: A conversation on sexuality, gender and the Catholic Church
In this episode, NCR books editor Jamie Manson, feminist theologian Mary Hunt, and Dignity USA executive director Marian... Read more
20 Oct 2017
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23mins
Ranked #4
Episode 62: Is the church in crisis? Updates on clergy sex abuse
Episode 62: Is the church in crisis? Updates on clergy sex abuse
NCR's Joshua McElwee, Heidi Schlumpf, Michael Sean Winters and Dennis Coday talk about the summer's events that have led... Read more
7 Sep 2018
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52mins
Ranked #5
Episode 29: A Nation Under Trump
Episode 29: A Nation Under Trump
In this episode, host Brittany Wilmes is joined by some NCR reporters who are looking at key political issues a year aft... Read more
3 Nov 2017
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24mins
Ranked #6
Episode 52: Gaudete et Exsultate
Episode 52: Gaudete et Exsultate
On Monday April 9, the Vatican announced the release of a new papal document titled Gaudete et Exsultate, or “Rejoice an... Read more
13 Apr 2018
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33mins
Ranked #7
Episode 61: Humanae Vitae at 50
Episode 61: Humanae Vitae at 50
Released by Pope Paul VI in 1968, Humanae Vitae, or “Of Human Life,” established church teaching on family planning and ... Read more
15 Jun 2018
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27mins
Ranked #8
Episode 41: Young Catholics leaving the faith, immigration updates
Episode 41: Young Catholics leaving the faith, immigration updates
NCR contributor Julie Bourbon reports on a study of "nones" — that is, n-o-n-e-s, or young adults who don’t identify wit... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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25mins
Ranked #9
Episode 44: Contemplation for Lent
Episode 44: Contemplation for Lent
Nancy Sylvester, founder and director of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, talks today about contem... Read more
16 Feb 2018
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20mins
Ranked #10
Episode 23: Ken Burns' 'The Vietnam War'
Episode 23: Ken Burns' 'The Vietnam War'
In this episode, former NCR editor and publisher Tom Fox discusses Ken Burns' documentary series "The Vietnam War." Tom ... Read more
22 Sep 2017
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24mins
Ranked #11
Episode 14: Islam for Christians
Episode 14: Islam for Christians
Brittany talks to Jordan Denari Duffner of Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative. They discuss Islamophobia, how Jor... Read more
9 Jun 2017
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28mins
Ranked #12
Episode 32: The Communion of Saints (and Souls)
Episode 32: The Communion of Saints (and Souls)
NCR contributor Melissa Musick Nussbaum speaks about liturgical traditions that remember the dead and how Catholics can ... Read more
23 Nov 2017
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23mins
Ranked #13
Episode 35: Congregational racism, gun violence prevention
Episode 35: Congregational racism, gun violence prevention
Global Sisters Report staff writer Dawn Araujo-Hawkins talks about how congregations of women religious are working to m... Read more
15 Dec 2017
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21mins
Ranked #14
Episode 25: Deepening spirituality through yoga and the internet
Episode 25: Deepening spirituality through yoga and the internet
In this episode, NCR contributor Julie Bourbon explains kriya yoga and the Assisi Institute's inaugural kriya yoga confe... Read more
6 Oct 2017
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26mins
Ranked #15
Episode 36: Christmas for Skeptics
Episode 36: Christmas for Skeptics
In this episode, NCR columnist and blogger Tom Carney argues that the mystery of Christmas is drowned out by the commerc... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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28mins
Ranked #16
Episode 54: In new book, LCWR revisits the doctrinal assessment
Episode 54: In new book, LCWR revisits the doctrinal assessment
In a newly released book, former presidents of the Leadership Congregation of Women Religious, members of the organizati... Read more
27 Apr 2018
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27mins
Ranked #17
Episode 57: Tom Roberts and Joan Chittister on Catholic journalism
Episode 57: Tom Roberts and Joan Chittister on Catholic journalism
Sr. Joan Chittister, recently joined NCR staff and friends to ask Tom Roberts to reflect on his decades in Catholic jour... Read more
18 May 2018
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39mins
Ranked #18
Episode 47: Pro-Choice and Christian, National Catholic Sisters Week
Episode 47: Pro-Choice and Christian, National Catholic Sisters Week
NCR contributor Kelly Stewart and Episcopal priest Kira Schlesinger discuss Kira's book “Pro-Choice and Christian: Recon... Read more
9 Mar 2018
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32mins
Ranked #19
Episode 2: Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis
Episode 2: Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis
In this episode, host Brittany Wilmes speaks with Catholic author and journalist Austen Ivereigh, based in London. Auste... Read more
17 Mar 2017
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20mins
Ranked #20
Episode 16: Web of Life and The Field Hospital
Episode 16: Web of Life and The Field Hospital
In this episode, Brittany talks to GSR contributor Tracy Barnett, who's reporting from Panama on an eco-spiritual retrea... Read more
23 Jun 2017
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26mins