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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, Jesuitical is joined by Pete Davis to talk about his new documentary “Join or Die,” “a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it.” They discuss: Why Americans join fewer clubs and associations than they used to Why churches are suffering the same fate The work of Robert Putnam in his groundbreaking book, Bowling Alone During Signs of the Times, Zac highlights a new transcript of Pope Francis in conversation with Jesuits in Hungary. Links from the show: “Join or Die” ‘This is God’s Style’: Pope Francis’ conversation with Hungarian Jesuits How could a country that was 90 percent Catholic “disappear” Catholic priests and seminarians? Who is the real Bergoglio? What’s on tap? Tank 7 American Saison Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company Support Jesuitical by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/americamedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast by the young hip and lay editors of America media. That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.
0:19.6	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith, culture, in the news, often over drinks.
0:25.4	I am Zach Davis and I am stretching out and making myself at home in the studio by myself.
0:31.3	My co-host, Ashley McKinless, has abandoned me for a well-deserved
0:35.1	vacation in Jordan this week, so I've heard from her, it's going well, she's
0:38.8	enjoying her time there. She made it to Mount Nebo the other day. Looks
0:41.6	beautiful. So keep Ashley in your thoughts and
0:43.6	prayers as she's going through vacation this week. But more importantly, keep me in your thoughts and
0:47.0	prayers because I got to host the show by myself. So our guest this week is someone that you've heard before he's been on the show almost two years
0:53.4	ago to the date his name's Pete Davis he was on the show back in 2021 to talk about
0:58.0	his book dedicated about why we should commit in an age of infinite browsing and he's back with a brand new movie called
1:04.8	Join or Die. I think this is such an important topic you know we hear all the time that
1:09.2	America isn't a loneliness epidemic that we have a crisis of friendship we have a crisis of
1:14.4	mental health and Pete really takes a look at this through the lens of a work by
1:19.1	Robert Putnam called Bowling Alone which was a book that really caused quite a stir about this phenomena of Americans
1:25.6	joining fewer and fewer clubs and associations, you know, sports teams, unions, churches,
1:30.7	bridge clubs, you name it. We used to love joining things and no one really does that anymore.
1:37.0	And it's a huge problem. And there's a definite Catholic angle to this too, you know, being
1:41.5	communitarians and all that. So stick around for that. And then I'm also going to offer a few words about some Catholic news this week, some things that have been rolling around in my head. It'll be a shorter version of SOTs. And I am very excited this week because I do have a drink, which we usually do on the
1:56.7	podcast and I know it's not always great to drink alone. So if you are out there somewhere and you can
2:01.5	pour a beverage while you listen to this.
2:03.2	Please do that so I'm not drinking alone, but I wanted to tell you about the beer.
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