Should the church encourage Catholic influencers?
Shownotes
On this bonus episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with two digital evangelization experts who helped create the Vatican’s study group report on the digital environment as part of the Synod on Synodality. Kim Daniels directs the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, and José Manuel de Urquidi runs the Evangelization Lab. Both were synod delegates, along with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost (the future Pope Leo XIV), at the global sessions of the synod in Rome in 2023 and 2024.
They discuss:
00:00 What are the Synod Study Groups?
7:10 How Pope Leo has shaped synodality
15:16 How influencers challenge church jurisdiction
28:30 Accompanying digital evangelizers
33:40 Converting to real communities
Links:
Study Group 3’s final report on the Digital Environment
The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life
Coverage of Pope Leo’s encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas”
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