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Amazon Synod, Celibacy (Nov. 2)

The Amazon Synod final document included paragraphs on the female diaconate, married priests and an Amazon rite. Edward Pentin discusses the final document and what happens next. Then we take up the theme of married priests with Register columnist Father Carter Griffin, who is rector of St. John Paul II Seminary in Washington and has recently written the book, Why Celibacy?

Maya Hawke as American writer Flannery O'Connor in the 2024 film "Wildcat."

Jessica Hooten Wilson and Father David Pivonka (May 4)

Flannery O’Connor scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson gives her take on the film Wildcats and what animates the Catholic 20th-century writer’s prophetic imagination. Franciscan University of Steubenville’s president Father David Pivonka joins us to explain why Franciscan University has pushed back against the new interpretation of the Title IX rule.