What is up with the German bishops? Ed Konden is next.

Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic

answers podcast for living understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I'm

Cy Kelleit your host and Ed Konden our guest today is one of the founders of a

new journalistic effort called the pillar. I'm excited to see what the pillar becomes because this world is so in need of good journalism right now and Ed and his partner J.D. Flynn are two very fine journalists, so it's going to be fascinating to see what comes

from the pillar. One of the first stories they reported on was one I have been

wondering about I needed someone to explain to me it's about the German bishops

and their synodal process.

And Ed has been doing great reporting

on the German bishops for a long time.

So we invited Ed on to give us a primer

on the theological issues in dispute. the Ed Konden from The Pillar, thanks so much for being here with us.

Thanks for having me.

I do want to get into a conversation about the German bishops.

I am concerned about that, though I am possibly not in a position to do anything about it,

but first I want to congratulate you on the new venture. You and

J.D. Flynn started the pillar, just the beginning of this year. And how's it going? Maybe you could even tell

us a little bit what the plan is there. What's the pillar now? What's it going? Maybe you could even tell us a little bit what the plan is there.

What's the pillar now? What's it going to be?

Well, the pillar right now is J.D. and I. We launched on January 4th, so we're not quite two weeks in yet, but so far're having a great time and really what it is it's a we're calling it a new kind of project for journalism on the Catholic Church and what we really wanted to do was give ourselves a break from chasing the daily news cycle because, you know,

we've all gotten used to sort of the sort of 24-hour scrolling and rolling news cycle that, you know, it sucks up all of your attention.

And a lot of the stories that we thought meant the most to us

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