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Ep. 237: Live (and united) from Baltimore! Nov 14, 2025

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JD and Ed recap the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore this week.

Then, JD plays a round of French retirement ‘Yes or No.’

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Bonus: The catechetical content we need Nov 07, 2025

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Oscar cams. Consider it, bishops!

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Ep. 236: Blacklisted, and the horse race Nov 07, 2025

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JD and Ed look ahead to the elections at the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore next week.

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* Saturday, November 15 at 10 pm at Legends at the University of Notre Dame (100 Legends)

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Bonus: Our Halloween bonus episode Nov 01, 2025

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JD and Ed talk costumes and more in this Halloween bonus episode.

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Ep. 235: Maybe it isn’t all signaling? Oct 31, 2025

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JD and Ed wrestle with a question about Pope Leo XIV.

Then, JD asks Ed for some advice.

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Photo: Pope Leo XIV © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

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Bonus: Mr. Big Shot going to the big house Oct 24, 2025

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JD and Ed talk about the gambling and sports betting scandal roiling the NBA.

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Ep. 234: It’s not easy being the king of Canada Oct 24, 2025

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JD and Ed take a deep dive inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s meeting this week with King Charles III.

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Photo credit: King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, during an October 2019 visit to Rome for the canonization of John Henry Newman. © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

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Ep. 233: The end of the Leonine honeymoon Oct 17, 2025

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JD recaps his time at SeaWorld. He and Ed talk about a couple more Leonine appointments this week— Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City and Fr. Josef Grünwidl as the new archbishop of Vienna.

They talk about the APSA audit memo that informed Pope Francis’ 2022 order transferring the Vatican’s asset management from APSA to the Vatican City bank. They speculate why Pope Leo clawed back that 2022 order last week.

Then, JD plays a round of equine ‘Greater or Lesser.’

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Bonus: A few frustrations Oct 11, 2025

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Ed visits an allergist.

Then, he shares his frustrations with the latest lawsuit related to the Vatican financial scandal.

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Ep. 232: Definitions, and a disposition toward the miraculous Oct 11, 2025

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JD and Ed answer a canon law question from a Pillar reader.

The Diocese of Lincoln has said a vibrating relic is “not of supernatural origin.” JD and Ed talk about the relic and the acts of faith it inspired in the local community.

Then, JD and Ed talk about the latest from Pope Leo XIV— including repealing one of Pope Francis’ financial regulations, publishing his first apostolic exhortation, and his comments about the definition of ‘pro-life’ in response to ‘Durbingate.’

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