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The America Media Podcast

Summary: Excerpts from "America This Week," America Media's weekly radio show on "The Catholic Channel" on SiriusXM, hosted by Matt Malone, S.J. Kerry Weber and Tim Reidy.

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Podcasts:

 Who is the real Pope Francis?—”America This Week” November 23 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:08

This week, Mark Shriver chats to Olga Segura and Matt Malone, S.J., about his new book. In Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis, Mark Shriver explains who Jorge Bergoglio was before he took on papal responsibility.

 Who is the real Pope Francis?—”America This Week” November 23 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:08

This week, Mark Shriver chats to Olga Segura and Matt Malone, S.J., about his new book. In Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis, Mark Shriver explains who Jorge Bergoglio was before he took on papal responsibility.

 How to Live a Committed Life—”America This Week” November 16, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:33

Following Rhona Tarrant's news review, this week Eileen Markey speaks to Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J., about her latest book, Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura. In this clip Eileen Markey discusses why Sister Maura was asssasinated in El Salvador and the great contributions of the Maryknoll sisters.

 How to Live a Committed Life—”America This Week” November 16, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:33

Following Rhona Tarrant's news review, this week Eileen Markey speaks to Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J., about her latest book, Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura. In this clip Eileen Markey discusses why Sister Maura was asssasinated in El Salvador and the great contributions of the Maryknoll sisters.

 How Our Next President Was Elected—”America This Week” November 9, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:25

The morning after the election of Donald J. Trump, America's National Correspondent, Michael O'Loughlin, and Associate Editor at America, Robert David Sullivan, discuss how the election unfolded with Kerry Weber and Tim Reidy.

 How Alcoholics Anonymous is Connecting People to God—”America This Week” November 2, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:23

In this week's podcast Bill McGarvey speaks to Tim Reidy and Kevin Clarke about how Alcoholics Anonymous is connecting people to God outside of the church. For Bill McGarvey, many of the most grounded and spiritually open people he knows are members of A.A. In an age where fewer people are willing to affiliate with institutional religions like Catholicism, organizations like A.A. might point to the future of religion in the United States.

 Hollywood Takes On Heaven—”America This Week” October 26, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:58

This week America's L.A. Correspondent, Jim McDermott, S.J., talks to Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J., and they discuss how Hollywood portrays religion—for better and for worse. For Jim McDermott, many attempts to explore religious territory in film and television are kitschy, but a new show called "The Good Place" has a particularly sophisticated take on heaven.

 What is the new Jesuit Superior General really like?—”America This Week” October 19, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:15

This week, Tim Reidy and Ashley McKinless welcome America's editor at large James Martin, S.J., into the studio. Together they discuss the new Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa, S.J., and what type of leader he will make in comparison to his predecessor.

 Who Should We Consider Saints?—”America This Week” October 12, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:56

This week Robert Ellsberg discusses his book, Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses, with Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J. The book includes reflections on the stories of canonized saints, and well as lay, non-Christian and non-religious individuals. The purpose of sharing these stories is to provide readers with daily spiritual guidance. In this podcast we also field calls from radio listeners, who describe their favorite saints.

 How Will the Next President Govern?—”America This Week” October 5, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:12:20

Luke Russert, who left his position as an NBC News anchor in July, shares his expertise with Matt Malone, S.J., and Tim Reidy. In this week's podcast they talk about the responsibility of the media during election season and the debates, and envision how the next president—be it Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton—will lead the country.

 Shusaku Endo’s ‘Silence’ - Special Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:06

Kevin Spinale, S.J., and James Keane revisit Shusaku Endo's acclaimed novel Silence in advance of Martin Scorsese's planned screen adaption.

 Foreign Policy and the Presidential Candidates—”America This Week” September 28, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:30

Speaking to Tim Reidy and Kerry Malone, in this week's podcast Maryann Cusimano Love explains the foreign policy stances of the presidential candidates. This is a subject Maryann Cusimano Love is well qualified to discuss; she makes direct recommendations to the Secretary of State and the Federal Advisory Commission about how the government can engage with civil society and religious actors in foreign policy.

 The Enduring Value of Catholic Print Media—”America This Week” September 21, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:38

In this week's podcast, Greg Erlandson, the editor-in-chief of the Catholic News Service, talks to Matt Malone, S.J., and Ashley McKinless about the challenges Catholic print media is facing today. As he wrote in the pages of America, Erlandson argues that the value of Catholic print media remains, but it must change in order to survive.

 Bearing Witness to America’s Religious History—”America This Week” September 15th, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:55

Kenneth L. Woodward is the author of Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama, a book that fuses memoir, history, and religious scholarship. In this podcast he speaks to Matt Malone, S.J., and Kerry Weber about the moments in history he witnessed as religion editor for Newsweek, and the changing role of religion in the United States. 

 How To Remember 9/11 Today—”America This Week” September 8th, 2016 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:13:22

This week Christopher Pramuk, a professor of theology at Xavier University, ponders raising his son in a post-9/11 world. Together with Pramuk, Kevin Clarke and Matt Malone, S.J., discuss how American lives have been spiritually, culturally and psychologically altered by the tragedy.

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