Catholic wisdom from Jane Austen, a cardinal arrested in Hong Kong, and altar serving as an adult

Jesuitical

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4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On the surface, Jane Austen’s classic novels like Pride and Prejudice and Emma might seem to be about courtship and marriage, manners and the social hierarchies of Regency England. But while weddings and ballrooms abound in her books, so do lessons about how to live a virtuous life. This week on Jesuitical, we speak with Haley Stewart, a self-described Jane Austen evangelist and the author of the new book, Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life: On Love, Friendship, and Becoming the Person God. We ask Haley how virtues like humility and patience are cultivated in Austen’s fiction; what Jane would say about modern dating and romance; why Catholics (and men) should take her novels seriously. In Signs of the Times, Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 90-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong, was arrested and briefly detained for his involvement in pro-democracy protests. Zac breaks down what this arrest means for the (very complicated) situation of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong and mainland China. Links from the show: Join Jesuitical in Italy Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, arrested in Hong Kong Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life: On Love, Friendship, and Becoming the Person God Created You to Be What’s on tap? Balcones bourbon, distilled by our guests’s husband! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Jeshitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of
0:14.6	America media that lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them
0:18.2	join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news.
0:22.7	Often Over Drinks.
0:23.9	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:27.0	Great to be with you, Ashley.
0:28.6	Yes, it's great to be with you and I hear
0:31.2	you've been doing some new reading.
0:33.4	I finally lifted up my nose from Pride and Prejudice.
0:36.9	I've been getting super into whether or not
0:39.6	Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are really gonna get together. I'm dying to know. Yes and you were
0:45.0	inspired to do this reading by our guest this week who is Haley Stewart.
0:49.6	She is a self-described Jane Austin evangelist and her new book is Jane Austin's Genius
0:57.0	Guide to Life on Love, Friendship, and Becoming the person God created you to be.
1:02.2	Yeah, this is a really fun conversation.
1:04.0	I have never read any Jane Austin,
1:06.0	which is in contrast to you, I know.
1:08.0	Yes, no.
1:09.0	I haven't read all of her works, but I think all but like two.
1:12.0	Yeah. I've read Emma and Pride and Prejudice more
1:14.4	times than I can count seeing all the TV remakes and movies and so this was a very fun
1:20.8	conversation for me to have.
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