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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A Jesuit Approach to Public Health with Fr. Michael Rozier, SJ
What words would you use to describe the American healthcare system?
Here are a few:
Broken. In need of healing. Confusing....
Pathway to Priesthood: Nathan Krawetzke, SJ
Welcome to the third season of our annual series “Pathway to Priesthood”—a special podcast series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United...
The Joy of Discovering New Music with Josh Terry
One of host Mike Jordan Laskey’s favorite things to do is to discover that a writer or other creative person whose work he loves has a Jesuit connecti...
Brooklyn's Innovative Jesuit Middle School with James Kennedy
There’s an old Latin saying about some of the famous male founders of religious orders. In translation, it goes like this: “Bernard loved the valleys;...
What We Can Learn From Tolkien's Catholic Imagination with Kaitlyn Facista
J.R.R. Tolkien is considered by many to be the father of modern fantasy. The vast world he created in Middle-earth is full of elves and orcs, magic an...
Matters of Life and Death with Liz Bruenig
In December 2020, after the journalist Liz Bruenig witnessed an execution for the first time, she threw up on the pavement outside the federal prison...
How This Lawyer Fights for the Common Good with Kevin Walsh
Here’s a fun lawyer joke: Why does New Jersey have so many toxic waste dumps and Washington, DC have so many lawyers? Because New Jersey got the first...
Two Jesuits Talking | Episode 7: Home!
A conversation that begins with Girl Scout Cookies and sweet cereal slowly finds its way to something deeper: what home really means. Father Damian an...
Chemistry is a Long, Loving Look at the Real with Michelle Francl
This is the second episode in our little two-part miniseries featuring Catholic scientists. Be sure to check out last week’s conversation with Deacon...
Two Jesuits Talking | Episode 6: Sacrifice!
Lent has a way of bringing the word "sacrifice" to the surface, and we’re not just talking about giving up chocolate. Father Damian and Father Eric sh...
From MIT Physics Ph.D. to the Jesuits with Matthew Pinson, SJ
With this episode, we’re starting a two-week miniseries featuring Catholic scientists. Today, our guest is with Deacon Matthew Pinson, SJ. Matthew is...
Two Jesuits Talking | Episode 5: Bodies!
Gymnastics. Theater. Sacraments. Muscle memory. Fathers Eric and Damian talk about the body, not as something separate from faith, but as the place wh...
Why Your Inner Artist Needs Monastic Wisdom with Christine Valters Paintner
There is a new book out from Ave Maria Press. It’s called “A Book of Everyday Blessings”—and today’s host, Eric Clayton, was eager to get his hands on...
Two Jesuits Talking | Episode 4: Friendship!
Friendship is not accidental in Jesuit life; it’s foundational. Fr. Eric and Fr. Damian reflect on trust, vulnerability and the risk of being known, a...
Schools Where the Poor Are First with Fr. Marco Gómez, SJ
With more than 120 Jesuit high schools and universities in the US and Canada, it’s no surprise education is what the Society of Jesus is best known fo...
Two Jesuits Talking | Episode 3: Music!
Every life has a soundtrack. Fathers Eric and Damian swap stories about the music that formed them, the songs that carried faith, doubt, longing and j...
How Catholics Encounter the Bible with Michael Peppard
There’s a stereotype out there that Catholics don’t know much if anything about the Bible. If you have a question about a specific book or verse from...
Two Jesuits Talking | Episode 2: Nighttime!
Two Jesuits. Real life. Real faith.
Today's episode: Nighttime! There’s something about nighttime that loosens the soul. In the quiet, d...
How to Pray With the Pope and Why It Matters with Fr. Cristóbal Fones, SJ
In the life of a Catholic, there are set times when we pray for and with the Pope. At Mass, during the prayers of the faithful, for example. There’s t...
Our Brand-New Podcast: Two Jesuits Talking
Here’s an exciting announcement: We here at the Jesuit Media Lab have a brand-new podcast we’re producing. It’s called Two Jesuits Talking. (As you ca...
This Lent, We Want to Pay Better Attention with Cameron Bellm
Cameron Bellm, a writer who works at the intersections of creativity, spirituality, mysticism and activism, is the editor of our Jesuit Media Lab Lent...
How Early Jesuits Pioneered the School Play with Fr. Michael Zampelli, SJ
From the earliest years of the Society of Jesus almost 500 years ago, Jesuits have been involved in the performing arts. Fr. Michael Zampelli, SJ, tod...
How Summer Jobs Prepare Us For Life with Fr. James Martin, SJ
Today’s guest is no stranger to the AMDG podcast. Fr. James Martin is a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large at America Media. His newest book, “Work in...
One Jesuit's Experience of Violence and Fear in Minneapolis: A Conversation with R.J. Fichtinger, SJ
As Catholics formed in the Ignatian tradition, we are called to welcome the stranger, to care for our neighbor and to respect one another as we answer...
"LiturGPT": AI Is Coming for Worship with Fr. Phil Ganir, SJ
You might have read or thought about how the rise of artificial intelligence is affecting the economy or higher education or medicine or pretty much a...
Unpacking Pope Leo's Message to Catholic Schools with Michael O'Connor
Last year, Pope Leo XIV published an apostolic letter called “Drawing New Maps of Hope.” (This is not to be confused with his apostolic exhortation on...
Dungeons, Dragons and the Formation of a Moral Imagination with Susan Haarman
Last May, America Magazine ran an article entitled “Dungeons & Dragons—and Jesuits” by Robert Buckland, a Jesuit in formation. Buckland admits to bein...
Four Spiritual New Year's Resolutions with Laura Kelly Fanucci
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. As we welcome 2026, host Mike Jordan Laskey wanted to have a deeply thoughtful and faith-filled guest on the show...
Why Ignatian Spirituality Can Still Change the World with Lori Stanley & Mark Mossa, SJ
For you eleventh-hour Christmas shoppers out there, have I got a treat for you. There’s a new book out from Loyola Press, the second volume in an incr...
An Advent Pilgrimage to the US-Mexico Border
In this special crossover episode of "AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast" and "The Jesuit Border Podcast," we hear from both Fr. Brian Strassburger, SJ, the execu...
The Best Things About "A Christmas Carol"
Jesuit Media Lab fellows Mike O'Connell and Renée Roden join host Mike Jordan Laskey to draft their favorite things about Charles Dickens' "A Christma...
Anxious? These Spiritual Insights Will Help with Author Sara Billups
It’s a bit of a cliché to say that we live in uncertain times. Just look at the headlines. Relationships — from the global to the intimate — are frayi...
Life as a Jesuit's Mom with Kristin Gilger and Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ
Whenever a man joins the Society of Jesus, his family and friends have to process that big life change and figure out how it’s going to affect their r...
Meet the Jesuit Ex-National Park Ranger at the Vatican Observatory
Rob Lorenz was a National Park Ranger who spent time working at places Arches National Park in Utah and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. One of his fav...
Why This Catholic Author Retold Bible Stories As Fairy Tales with Rose John Sheffler
“To many, Fantasy, this sub-creative art which plays strange tricks with the world and all that is in it, combining nouns and redistributing adjective...
The Fascinating World of Rare Books with Fr. Michael Suarez, SJ
If you love old books – if you love how they smell, if you love imagining their journeys through the world into your hands, if you can’t pass by a use...
Care for the Person, Care for the Mission: Why Cura Apostolica? with Fr. Matt Carnes, SJ
If you’ve hung around Jesuits and Jesuit organizations long enough, you surely have come in contact with the phrase cura personalis. In short, practic...
Unpacking Pope Leo XIV's "Dilexi te" with Fr. Chris Kellerman, SJ
Fr. Chris Kellerman, SJ, the Jesuit Conference's Secretary of Justice and Ecology, joins host Mike Jordan Laskey to discuss Pope Leo XIV's apostolic e...
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...