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America Media asked Pope Francis about women’s ordination. Here’s what he said.

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America Media

News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It’s not every day your colleague gets to interview—and share a laugh with—Pope Francis. So this week we’re talking to Kerry Weber, an executive editor at America, who was one of five America editors who spent two hours speaking with the pope on Nov. 22. We ask Kerry what surprised her most about the Holy Father and what it was like to be a woman asking Francis about women’s ordination, a question considered by many to be off the table, within the walls of the Vatican. In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss the appointment of a Chinese bishop to a diocese not recognized by the Holy See—and the Vatican’s unusually harsh response. And finally, stick around after the credits for a preview of America Media’s new season of its Advent podcast “Hark! The stories behind our favorite Christmas carols.” Links from the show: Exclusive: Pope Francis discusses Ukraine, U.S. bishops and more Behind the scenes: What it’s like to interview Pope Francis Vatican statement suggests China violated agreement over appointment of bishops China vows more ‘friendly consensus’ after unusually harsh Vatican statement The Catholic Church in China | A Short Documentary The story of ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas classic born in Ukraine What’s on tap? Champagne  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Issemyaki. Hello and welcome to Josh Whiticle, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of

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America Media. That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.

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Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news.

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Often over drinks.

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I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.

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It's good to be with you Ashley.

0:57.2

Man, this week in particular is always busy every year because it's like

1:00.8

the confluence of Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday, First Sunday of

1:04.9

Advent. It's not always the first Sunday. Those don't always come so close together and

1:08.7

it's thrown me off. They often do them and it always sneaks up on me every year.

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But this year in particular was super busy.

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It was a big week for America magazine.

1:20.0

I don't know what you could be referring to.

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They're actually like multiple things. So first we started off on

1:26.0

Monday with a groundbreaking interview with Pope Francis. Five of our colleagues went over to Rome the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and sat down with the Pope for two hours and this was the first time that Pope has done an

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extended interview with editors of an American magazine, a American magazine, and it wasn't in America.

1:47.0

Yeah, it was, so that was really exciting.

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