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JesuiticalJune 30, 2023
Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, interim president of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, smiles during a visit with Ukrainian refugees in Barabás, Hungary, March 9, 2022. (CNS photo/courtesy Lambert Attila/Magyar Kurír)

On the season finale of “Jesuitical,” Zac and producer Sebastian Gomes talk with Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., who leads the Vatican’s department for social justice and human development. (Ashley was out of the country at the time of the interview). Cardinal Czerny is also the co-author of the new book Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis. We talk to him about:

  • The disputed legacy of Vatican II
  • How Pope Francis has developed the church’s social teaching
  • How the church should relate to the outside world

In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley point ahead to some stories to look out for this summer. And in As One Friend Speaks to Another, they look back at the season and the many graces it held.

Links from the show:

What’s on tap?

Rum sunset, prepared by outgoing O’Hare fellow, Chris Parker

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