How Pope Francis laid the groundwork for his papacy

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ten years ago, Pope Francis released his first papal document, “Evangelii Gaudium,” which lays out his vision for the church in the 21st century. To help break down this inaugural document of Francis’ papacy, Zac and Ashley welcome Rafael Luciani, an associate professor of practice at the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. They discuss: Pope Francis’ call to “pastoral conversion” and “missionary discipleship” How Pope Francis’ Latin American roots guide his vision for the church The foundation for a synodal church put forth in “Evangelii Gaudium” Links from the show: Evangelii Gaudium What’s on tap? Wine from Mendoza, Argentina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	Fancy a cheese hit! Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle, a podcast from America Media for Saints and Sinners.
0:36.0	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church in our world
0:40.2	today.
0:41.2	Often over drinks.
0:42.2	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by
0:44.0	Zach Davis. If you are listening to this right now I am in a food coma.
0:47.0	Yeah, so happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. We're obviously
0:51.0	recording this before Thanksgiving, but the plan is for this to come out on November 24th, which is in addition to being Black Friday the 10th anniversary of the Apostolic Exortation, Evangeli Gautium, also known as The Joy of the Gospel by
1:07.1	Pope Francis.
1:08.1	Yes, so 10 years ago I was studying in Rome as a college student 2013. You were working here at America.
1:14.0	Yeah, I just got here. Yeah, and this was Pope Francis's first major teaching document that came out so it was pretty
1:21.1	highly anticipated and you know we were just talking looking ahead
1:25.2	to this anniversary and it really does kind of like serve as a foundation for
1:29.4	his entire papacy. Yeah and you can see in this document kind of like the framework for not only the past
1:34.2	ten years of its papacy, but the last month in Rome at the Synodon Synodality.
1:39.3	Synodality per se is not a huge focus of the exhortation, but it does talk a lot about the people of God as being
1:44.6	the protagonists in addition to the Holy Spirit and the church and the need for them to participate
1:48.9	more fully as evangelists and as part of the church.
1:52.4	And it kind of has like an all-timer in terms of like opening lines and very fitting for this Black Friday.
1:58.0	Oh yes yes, so I'll quote that in full.
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