Why churches would collapse without women

Jesuitical

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4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Zac and Ashley chat with Dr. Gina Zurlo, the Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, about her groundbreaking research on women outpacing men in worldwide church participation. Zac, Ashley, and Gina discuss: - Gina’s experience co-authoring World Christian Encyclopedia (Third Edition), a 1,000-page textbook that documents the changing status of global Christianity over the past 120 years, which she presented to Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2023. - Why the participation and leadership of women in churches is often overlooked or underreported - Suggestions for how the church can better support and empower women in leadership and ministry In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley cover the hundreds of emails obtained by the Associated Press that reveal the extent to which the NFL’s New Orleans Saints helped the Archdiocese of New Orleans contain the damage of new revelations of sexual abuse; and the Vatican’s new rules on how to worship when when a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday. Links for further reading: Gina Zurlo’s website Gina Zurlo’s Groundbreaking Research on Women in World Christianity World Christian Encyclopedia (Third Edition) Emails reveal extent of New Orleans Saints’ damage control for Catholic sex abuse crisis When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday: Vatican releases new rules What’s on tap? Black coffee 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 Hanks Center for the Catholic intellectual heritage at Loyola University, Chicago, is proud to support Jesuitical.
0:07.2	This spring, the Hanks Center is excited to announce a robust lineup of events which includes envisioning a livable future,
0:13.6	a series of virtual events whose topics explore the status of climate change and the legacy of Pope Francis' encyclical, La Dato C.
0:22.4	This spring will also include engaging lectures by Dr. Abigail Favale and Dr. Bronwyn McShea. Dr. Favale will present the 2025 St. John
0:30.0	Henry Newman Lecture on February 19th, and will share the story of her conversion to the Catholic
0:34.7	faith, where she discovered the startling beauty of a sacramental
0:37.6	cosmos and a vision of reality that upended her notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and
0:43.3	authority. Then on March 20th, Dr. Bronwyn McShea will deliver the center's annual Teilhard de Chardin
0:49.5	lecture. Her talk entitled Jesuits in New France and women's contribution to the Catholic intellectual tradition
0:55.3	will explore the numerous contributions of women to the Catholic Church.
0:59.4	For more information about these events and other spring offerings,
1:02.8	please visit l-uc.edu slash c-I-H.
1:07.7	Music I.H. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast from America Media for Saints and Sinners.
1:22.6	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church and our world today,
1:27.8	often over drinks. I'm Ashley McKinless, and I'm joined by Zach Davis. Great to be with you,
1:32.3	Ashley. Actually, that's not true. I just got back from a vacation. That was way better. I begrudgingly
1:36.8	am with you. Yeah, yeah. Where were you at 24 hours ago? It was just in the ocean on the beach. It was way better than this. I'm sorry. That's all right. I feel refreshed,
1:48.1	ready to get back after it, ready to podcast some more. So you're a data guy, right?
1:51.9	I am. Yeah, I love looking at the data here at America. Yeah, and the Catholic Church,
2:00.9	as far as religion goes, good data, you know. All right. Well, you would think that you would know how many, like, women go to church, right? Like, that seems like an important piece of data that we would
2:05.4	know. Hang on. I'm pulling it up right now. A lot. Well, okay. So we don't. You know, we always hear
2:12.2	more women go to church than men, but we don't actually have survey data that shows like what percentage of people in
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