Senator Chris Coons: Democrats need to talk about their faith

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with U.S. Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat who has served as a senator from Delaware since 2010. Zac, Ashley and Senator Coons discuss: How the senator’s Protestant upbringing and the example of his parents shaped his perspective on service Why Democrats need to be more open about their faith in the public arena How Senator Coons feels about having the first American pope In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss the recent removal of mosaics by alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik from the Vatican News website and an op-ed in America by Archbishop John Wester on why President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” betrays the poor. BE PART OF THE FIRST-EVER JESUITICAL RETREAT! Join us at the studio and headquarters of America Media in New York City for two days of community, prayer and sharing stories of faith. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we make the podcast, meet fellow young Catholics, pray with America staff and editor in chief Sam Sawyer, S.J., share meals and craft your own faith story with accompaniment from our team. Sign up here! We can’t wait to meet you. Jesuitical Young Adult Retreat: What’s Your Story? Open to ages 21-39 Friday, June 27th (evening) + Saturday, June 28th (all day) New York, NY Friday: America Media Office – 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 Saturday: Jesuits USA East Province – 39 E 83rd St, New York, NY 10028 Cost: $100 Housing: Participants are responsible for their own lodging in NYC Capacity: The retreat will be capped at 30 participants. First come, first served. Links for further reading: Jesuitical Storytelling Retreat Senator Chris Coons - Press Releases Prayer, not Politics, on Wednesday Mornings, by Chris Coons Mosaics of alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik removed from Vatican News website Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ betrays the poor. The church must oppose it. You can follow us on X and on Instagram @jesuiticalshow. You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/jesuitical. Please consider supporting Jesuitical by becoming a digital subscriber to America magazine at americamagazine.org/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4	Music Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast from American media for saints and sinners.
0:49.7	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church in our world today, sometimes over drinks. I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis. It's great to be with you, Ashley. Great to be here. We had a great trip down to D.C. earlier this week. Yeah, always exciting to go to D.C. One, because the McKinless clan is down there. But this time, we were thrilled to join a member of the U.S. Senate and in their
1:12.5	office on location to talk about faith and politics. Yeah, we were with Senator Chris Coons.
1:18.5	He's the senior senator from Delaware. And he's someone who's been pretty outspoken about his
1:24.0	own faith. He's Presbyterian. And he's really, for the past decade, really,
1:28.3	push Democrats to own their faith and talk about how their faith really push them into
1:33.3	public service and inspires them to fight for the policies they care about, whether that's
1:39.1	economic justice or immigration or anything else. Yeah, you mentioned this when we talked to him,
1:43.8	but I also thought it was funny that your family and his family
1:47.4	kind of have the exact same religious makeup.
1:49.8	Yes, no, so he's Presbyterian, as is my father,
1:52.2	and married a Catholic and raised their kids Catholic,
1:55.1	and have kept a few of those kids in the Catholic faith.
1:58.8	Yeah, he seems to be hanging around Catholics a bunch.
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