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Jesuitical

Going on ‘Digital Pilgrimage’ and praying with a smartphone

Jesuitical

America Media

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

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What if you could pray with the Black Madonna of Montserrat, on the banks of the River Cardoner or the cave in Manresa where St. Ignatius developed the Spiritual Exercises—from the comfort of your couch? Today’s guest, Vivian Richards, S.J., wants to help Catholics do just that. Father Vivian is a Jesuit priest of India’s Karnataka province and part of the team of Jesuits who developed the JesuitPilgrimage app. The app provides photos, prayer and audio guides and interactive maps to bring users to the significant spots in the life of St. Ignatius and the Society of Jesus. We talk with Father Richards about how smartphones can help (and hurt) our prayer life, what it’s like to work at the Jesuit curia (a.k.a the home office) and what it means to take a “digital pilgrimage.” And in Signs of the Times, Ashley and Zac discuss President Joe Biden’s asylum policy being at odds with Catholic teaching, the five lucky cousins who will receive an inheritance from the late Pope Benedict XVI and Georgetown University poaching the star coach of Providence College’s men’s basketball team. Links from the show: Bishop Seitz on Biden’s new asylum policy: Death cannot be the cost of our immigration laws Five cousins of late Pope Benedict XVI may receive small inheritance Georgetown hires Ed Cooley to revive Hoyas men's basketball JesuitPilgrimage App Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Looking for a new source to inspire students, alumni, faculty, staff, administrators, and trustees of Jesuit works,

0:09.0

check out Jesuit Saints and Blessed's spiritual profiles.

0:13.4

Available now at Jesuit sources. BC.edU.

0:18.1

That's Jesuit sources dot E. D you.

0:25.0

Hello and welcome.

0:27.0

Hello and welcome to Jesuitical a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of

0:38.3

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

0:41.8

join us each week for a smart Catholic take

0:44.3

on faith culture in the news, often over drinks.

0:47.0

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

0:49.4

And it is great to be with you Ashley.

0:50.8

We are entering one of my favorite parts of the year which is

0:53.5

getting warmer yes warmer it's post St. Patrick's Day post daylight savings

0:57.5

change we're rounding the corner in Lent yeah spring really is on the way like I can

1:02.2

leave work and it's decent temperature and it's still light outside so Easter is coming.

1:06.3

Yep. All right. Let's bring that energy to today's show. Yeah, it's a really great one. We are who are we chatting with?

1:10.8

Yeah, we're talking to Father Vivian Richards.

1:12.6

He's a Jesuit priest of the Karnataka province in India,

1:16.0

but now he's living in Rome and working at the Jesuit Curia.

1:19.8

So that's like the home office of the society of Jesus.

1:23.4

Yeah, so we get to talk to Father Vivian

1:25.5

about an app that he's been working on that the Jesuits put out

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