AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
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AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Jesuits and friends come together to look at the world through Ignatian eyes, always striving to live Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- For the Greater Glory of God. Hosted by Mike Jordan Laskey and Eric Clayton. Learn more at jesuits.org. A production of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United State...
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The Jesuit Border Podcast Crossover ft. Bishop Michael Pham
The Jesuit Border Podcast has just launched its ninth season, and to commemorate the event, we're featuring the first episode of season nine here on A...
Making Theatre in Ukraine with Fr. George Drance, SJ
Fr. George Drance, SJ, is a great example of the fact that Jesuits can do and be anything. Fr. George is a theatre artist, which, in his case, encompa...
Jesuit Stories From the Middle East with Michael Petro, SJ
On October 4 and 5, the Catholic Church will observe the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Today’s guest, who recently stopped by our studio i...
Chasing St. Kevin: An Ignatian Pilgrimage into Ancient Ireland
St. Kevin is a 6th century Irish saint, best known, perhaps, for the monastery he founded at Glendalough, tucked deep into County Wicklow. Beyond the...
Meet Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, Jesuit-Educated Hollywood Screenwriters
The screenwriters Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn are cousins, and they grew up in the 1970s and ’80s in a big Catholic extended family in St. Louis. The Gun...
Pope Leo XIV's First Four Months with Christopher White
It’s hard to believe, but Pope Leo XIV just passed the four-month mark of his papacy. That’s more than a full season. After the incredible amount of p...
Why This Season of Creation is a Time of Pilgrimage
As Catholics, we’re familiar with the seasons of the Church year. We know to mark the days of Advent and Lent. We know that Easter lasts fifty days an...
How To Embrace a Theology of Flourishing with Dr. Paul Schutz
What does it mean to flourish? What does it mean for you to flourish? Have you ever really thought about it?
Too often, we’re forced to...
How to Thrive at the Intersection of Creativity and Spirituality with Songwriter Brody Bond
The Jesuit Media Lab was founded to help people navigate the intersection of creativity and spirituality. We know there are so many people out there w...
What Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, Is Learning from Young Catholics
Father Jack Bentz, SJ, is a Jesuit priest who works in campus ministry at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He also has a new podcast called...
Faith, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence with Brian P. Green
The Saturday after Pope Leo XIV was elected, he gave an address to cardinals in which he described his reasoning for selecting the name Leo.
Why Ignatian Spirituality is a Green Spirituality with Sr. Margaret Scott
In honor of the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola on July 31, we're taking a green look at his Spiritual Exercises.
When today's host, Eric...
What Leaders in All Fields Can Learn from St. Ignatius with Chris Lowney
When Chris Lowney started his career as an investment banker at JP Morgan in 1983, his background leading up to that job marked an unusual path to the...
How Jesuits Are Supporting Immigrants in San Diego with Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ
Father Scott Santarosa, SJ, is the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Diego, just a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Founded in 1921 as the...
How Dorothy Day's Granddaughter Martha Hennessy Continues the Mission
This past spring, host Mike Jordan Laskey traveled to New York for a Jesuit Media Lab theatre event. He was coordinating the outing with our JML contr...
A Conversation with Four Presidents on Jesuit Higher Education
From June 23 through June 27, 2025, on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans, student affairs professionals from across our network of Jesuit co...
A Conversation with the Jesuit Chaplain to the US Military
Nestled in the Horn of Africa on the easternmost part of the African continent is a small country called Djibouti. It’s bordered by three other countr...
Six Picks for Summer Reading, Watching and Listening with Michael O'Connell
Host Mike Jordan Laskey is joined by Jesuit Media Lab fellow, Michael O'Connell, on this special episode of "AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast" to kickstart the...
Embracing Undaunted Joy with Author Shemaiah Gonzalez
Today we’re talking about joy. It can be a hard thing to hold onto in this moment: The headlines are scary; our lives are full of stress and worry; an...
Pathway to Priesthood: Knowing When You're Ready with Joe Lorenz, SJ, and Orlando Portalatin, SJ
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a special podcast series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
In these conversa...
Shakespeare Through a Catholic Lens with Luke Taylor, SJ
If you stop and think about it, it’s amazing that the work of William Shakespeare, more than 400 years old, is still read by pretty much every student...
Pathway to Priesthood: The Power of Relationships with Chris Williams, SJ
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a special podcast series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
In these conversa...
A Strategic, Ignatian Path to Easter Joy with Lisa Kelly
The Easter season is about new life. Jesus rises from the dead and in so doing resets the horizon on what is possible for each and every one of us. We...
Pathway to Priesthood: Bringing Our Full Selves to God with Fernando Saldivar, SJ
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a special podcast series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
In these conversa...
Witnessing Church History (And Analyzing It on TV) with Fr. James Martin, SJ
After the white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on May 8, we turned on the TV here at the Jesuit Conference HQ in Washington and landed...
Pathway to Priesthood: Reflecting on Jesuit Community with Marc-André Veselovsky, SJ
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a special podcast series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
In these conversa...
Get to Know Pope Leo XIV with Fr. Kevin DePrinzio, OSA
Fr. Kevin DePrinzio, OSA, is an Augustinian priest who has known Pope Leo XIV -- his fellow Augustinian friar -- since the late 1990s. Fr. Kevin is no...
Pathway to Priesthood: Choosing Religious Life with David Inczauskis, SJ
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a special podcast series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. We’re back for season 2!
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How to Pray with the Stars with Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ
How do you pray with the stars? That’s the question underpinning today’s conversation with returning guest, Br. Guy Consolmagno. Guy is a Jesuit broth...
BONUS AMDG: An Ignatian Approach to the Conclave with Fr. Bill McCormick, SJ
Fr. Bill McCormick, SJ, is a political scientist by trade and a current writer at the Vatican-sponsored, Jesuit-run journal La Civiltà Cattolica in Ro...
Signs of Easter Hope in Uncertain Times with Emma Hudson
Even though Easter started ten days ago now, the season continues for a full 50 days. So we will wish you a happy Easter and encourage you to keep tha...
Remembering Pope Francis with Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ
Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ, the president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, reflects on the legacy and witness of Pope Francis. Fr....
The Work of Lent: Time to Reconcile
On this episode of our limited series, "The Work of Lent," we talk to Mike Jordan Laskey, director of communications for the Jesuit Conference and Jes...
The Work of Lent: Holy Week
In this final episode of "The Work of Lent," Fr. Eric Immel, SJ, accompanies us through Holy Week to Easter and challenges our assumptions about suffe...
Your Crash Course in Ignatian Discernment with Mark Thibodeaux, SJ
The art of discernment is a hallmark feature of Ignatian spirituality. From the moment Ignatius began to differentiate between consolations and desola...
Is Jesus the Monster? Horror & Theology with Ryan Duns, SJ
I’m not much of a fan of horror films. But I do love speculative storytelling — of which horror is a sub-genre. Even more, I love using stories of pop...
The Work of Lent: Why We Dare to Hope
In this episode of our limited Lenten series, Sr. Erin McDonald, CSJ, digital youth minister for the Congregation of St. Joseph and co-host of the "Be...
How This Catholic is Fighting for Workers with Chuck Hendricks
If you’ve ever eaten at a university dining hall or at an airport bar or in a corporate cafeteria, you have relied on the labor of thousands and thous...
The Work of Lent: A Journey of Conversion
In this episode of our limited Lenten series, Emily Mentock, a digital media professional and co-founder of Digital Continent, invites us to reflect o...
The Spirituality of Writing a Baseball Biography with John W. Miller
Spring means baseball is back in my life, and if there’s anything that’s almost as good as baseball, it’s writing about baseball. There is so much goo...