Meet the Catholic map lady who wants to help Pope Francis fight climate change—if the Vatican will let her.

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America Media

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

4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Catholic Church owns a lot of land: churches, monasteries, schools, hospitals, cemeteries and more. What it’s missing are maps. That’s where Molly Burhans comes in. Molly is on a mission to not only make a digital record of Catholic landholdings but to help the church use that land for good. We ask Molly how Catholic organizations can make their land environmentally sustainable and socially useful, how frustrating it can be to work with the Vatican at times and how she remains hopeful in the face of climate change. In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss the history of pope and president meetings ahead of Joe Biden’s trip to the Vatican. Plus, a gay teacher and music director in the Diocese of Brooklyn is fired after he married his partner. We ask: What’s the true cause of scandal in stories like this? Finally, we have a bonus episode for the members of our Patreon community. We sit down with our colleague Jim McDemott, S.J., a.k.a. The Pop Culture Priest, to talk about why we love the extremely Catholic Netflix show “Midnight Mass.” Become a Patreon member today to get this and future bonus episodes! Links from the show Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis carries resonance as disputes divide U.S. Catholics Video: Joe Biden talks his Catholic Faith, Pope Francis and Politics A Gay Music Teacher Got Married. The Brooklyn Diocese Fired Him. How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Learn more about GoodLands What’s on tap? Slightly expired Coors Light and Spencers Trappist beer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.8	Hello and welcome to Jezwitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of America Media. That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with
0:19.0	them. Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news, often over drinks.
0:24.8	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:27.6	You know what I think would improve the show?
0:29.2	What?
0:30.2	If the often over drinks was also an often over charcutary.
0:33.8	I've been wondering, you know, if we're trying to like recreate
0:37.0	a bar stool-like atmosphere among friends,
0:39.8	I feel like we've got the drinks thing down.
0:41.8	But oftentimes there's at least little snacks to Nibel on.
0:44.4	You can tell listener that it's a Tuesday,
0:46.3	which means Zach is starving because he's been in meetings all day.
0:50.1	Yeah, what's on my mind today, folks? Food. I do think it would be also bad because then you, these microphones are so close,
0:58.0	you'd have to listen to us to chew, which is just terrible.
1:00.0	So drinks it is for now.
1:02.0	And this week, we were kind of scraping at the
1:04.5	bottom of barrel or at least I am. We are still making our way through some
1:09.6	stuff that was left before the pandemic started.
1:12.6	And so there's a couple beers
1:14.3	that are just lying around in cabinets that.
1:16.5	May or may not be expired.
1:18.0	May or may not be expired, but we let no good thing go to waste.
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