The Indigenous sister risking her life to protect the Amazon

Jesuitical

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac are joined by Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso, an Indigenous activist fighting to protect the Amazon rainforest and serve its people. As the current vice president of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon region (known as CEAMA) and a 2019 auditor of the Synod for the Pan-Amazon Region, Sister Laura has met with Pope Francis to make the case for women’s ministries, including restoring women deacons. They discuss: - Sister Laura’s experience at Amazon Synod, and whether synodality “works” - What a typical day looks like when you are ministering to Indigenous communities in the Amazon and struggling against powerful (and violent) corporations. - What she would say to those who criticize women deacons as a “Western obsession” Links for further reading: A Franciscan sister joins the fight for Indigenous rights in Brazil A nun makes the case for women deacons to Pope Francis What you need to know about the 2019 Synod on the Amazon Brazilian Cardinal talks restoring women deacons, ordaining married men at synod press briefing Synod Diary: Women deacons are not a ‘Western’ obsession We’d like to give a special thanks to our translators, America O’Hare fellow Leilani Fuentes and Ellie Hidalgo of Discerning Deacons, who helped with the translations for this episode. 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 Media at americamagazine.org/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University, Chicago, is proud to support Jesuitical.
0:07.7	On Thursday, October 3rd, the Center was proud to host America Magazine editor-in-chief Father Sam Sawyer S.J.
0:14.4	For the second annual Jesuit lecture, his lecture, a better kind of politics, is now available to watch on the Hank Center's website.
0:21.9	In the lecture, Father Sawyer asks pointed questions that will help us all as we approach the ballot box.
0:27.9	What does hope for a depolarized world and church look like?
0:31.0	What unique responses and possible paths forward can be discerned from within the Catholic Jesuit tradition?
0:36.9	What resources for wisdom and reconciliation will help us live better lives as citizens?
0:42.3	To see this video and explore all of the Hank Center's past content, please visit
0:46.5	luc.edu slash CCIH. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast from America Media for saints and sinners.
1:05.7	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church and our world today, sometimes over drinks.
1:11.5	I'm Ashley McInlis, and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:13.9	It's good to be with you, Ashley.
1:15.0	Yes, back in the studio for it feels like the first time in two months.
1:18.2	Yeah, it does feel like that.
1:19.6	I think that's mostly because just the post-election, post-Sinid haze that we've been in.
1:24.9	But we were actually in the studio last week.
1:26.8	Right about that.
1:27.4	Yes. But this is the first time we're back with a more regular episode.
1:31.2	So we've had some sort of interview on the episodes last week was one of those. But we've got
1:36.7	a full packed show this week. We're coming back with Signs of the Times with face sharing.
1:41.9	I'm excited to be here. Yes. Though who we are talking to this week is from back when we were in Rome for the synod.
1:48.3	We're bringing you a really great conversation that we had there with Sister Laura, Bikuna, Perreira, Manso.
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