All Episodes

The German Church and the AfD, with Sebastian Ostritsch

Bonus: Cooperstown

Ep. 275: Rupnik, the Russians, and a rejected plea deal

Bonus: A comeback and a dream escape

Ep. 274: Middle-aged Men Yell at the Cloud

The consequences of Christianity, with Lord Frost

Bonus: Catholic suburban dad chat

Ep. 273: Two very troubling stories

Ep. 272: Vatican gold, Chinese bishops, and a case to watch in Burlington

Bonus: Let’s catch up.

Stoking the flames of revival, with Bishop Cozzens

No episode this week

Ep. 271: Rupnik rumors

Bonus: Hills and dales

Ep. 270: Good enough isn't good enough

Bonus: A Japanese cultural experience

Ep. 269: Pope Leo's vacation

Bonus: The pool fight

Ep. 268: The SSPX and what comes next

Bonus: Coach Rubio

Ep. 267: Consistory concerns, and pray for Venezuela

Bonus: The only standing patriot

Ep. 266: Dismas and choosing baptism

Bonus: Chocolate Chat

Ep. 265: Pope on a plane and the Dallas Charter

Bonus: The dicastery in need of an exorcism

Ep. 264: 'Does it count?' and the rise of the celebrity exorcist

Bonus: Trouble in Sausalito

Ep. 263: ‘Magnifica humanitas’

Bonus: The Coconut War and playing ball

Ep. 262: Recollect! Allocate! Celebrate!

Bonus: Brumation and Bohemia

Ep. 261: The dead document and the changed man

Bonus: Open waters

Ep. 260: One year of Leo, and the new sheriff in town

Ep. 259: All hands on deck?

Bonus: Crazy or prophet?

Ep. 258: Pope on a plane

Bonus: Sports Chat

Ep. 257: Leo in Africa, and questions without answers

Bonus: A question of etiquette

Ep. 256: War, peace, and the meeting

Bonus: Wildcat

Ep. 255: Yard work and yard goats

Bonus: Pillar Homes and Gardens

Ep. 254: Not hat chat, and how did we get here?

Ep. 253: Live from Chicago!

Bonus: Chicago chat

Ep. 252: The last straw in a long story

Bonus: Ed's quandary

Ep. 251: What’s next for Bishop Shaleta?

Bonus: Resounding gongs or clashing cymbals

Bonus: The Bug

Ep. 250: Reasonable people, and a lack of conclusions

Ep. 249: It is schism

Bonus: Scatology and eschatology

Ep. 248: Notre Dame, and the end of the great metropolitan turnover

Bonus: The Olympics and cultural cosplay

Ep. 247: ‘Welcome To New York'

Bonus: Champ Chat?

Bonus: From zero to Jimmy Valvano

Ep. 246: Confound it, Cozzens!

Bonus: Winter storm chat

Ep. 245: Fasting, abstinence, and what is a parish?

Bonus: Coach Flynn

Ep. 244: Contra men, and Fulton Sheen

Bonus: "Hosie"

Ep. 243: Let boring be boring, please

Bonus: Venezuela, with The Pillar's Edgar Beltrán

Bonus: Of course Mary knew!

Ep. 242: Sing a new Hicks into being

Bonus: Strawberry milk, and a Venezuelan in Rome

Ep. 241: China, Venezuela, and a slick transition

Ep. 240: Women deacons, and room for better conversation?

An event! A happening!

Ep. 239: Turkey in Turkey, and unity with the Orthodox

Bonus: Live from Notre Dame!

Bonus: What Leo didn't say, and the end of Christendom

Ep. 238: Pope Leo meets with young people, and the pension crisis

Bonus: Bishop or bot?

Ep. 237: Live (and united) from Baltimore!

Bonus: The catechetical content we need

Ep. 236: Blacklisted, and the horse race

Bonus: Our Halloween bonus episode

Ep. 235: Maybe it isn’t all signaling?

Bonus: Mr. Big Shot going to the big house

Ep. 234: It’s not easy being the king of Canada

Ep. 233: The end of the Leonine honeymoon

Bonus: A few frustrations

Ep. 232: Definitions, and a disposition toward the miraculous

Ep. 231: A canonical mailbag episode!

Bonus: Kids these days!

Ep. 230: Our first Leo data points

Ep. 229: What Pope Leo said

Bonus: God loves JD

Bonus: A bonus bonus?!

Bonus: Overheard, in Terminal 5

Ep. 228: Cooperation with China, and 'Traditionis custodes'

Ep. 227: What is your horizon?

Ep. 226: Minneapolis and America’s royal wedding

Bonus: Draft day, continued

Ep. 225: It's draft day, baby!

Bonus: Pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot.

Ep. 224: No silver bullet, and Pope Leo’s first 100 days

Bonus: Polygamy and the LDS church

Ep. 223: The question of polygamy

Ep. 222: Newman and me

Bonus: Questions and no answers about Detroit

Ep. 221: Pope Leo XIV, in Peru

Bonus: An impromptu business meeting

Ep. 220: A false sense of mercy

Bonus: Unity not uniformity

Ep. 219: Un problème américain

No podcast this week, and a recommendation

Bonus: Pilgrimage, and softball dreams

Ep. 218: Jeff Bezos got married. Is it valid?

Ep. 217: Territorial parishes, and the US Church of tomorrow

Bonus: Where is Cardinal McElroy?

Ep. 216: Playing God, and a functioning Vatican-China deal

Bonus: Character-builder or catastrophe?

Ep. 215: BEEF and Washington’s anti-clerical law

Bonus: PETA and the pontiff

Ep. 214: Charlotte’s web

Ep. 213: “Our guy,” and the impossible job

Bonus: Dream travel, cricket and papal tiaras

Ep. 212: The Leonine honeymoon? And one hell of a tale

Pope Leo XIV - The Pillar LIVE

Ep. 211: Waiting and the last Boomer conclave

Bonus: A stall, a shock and a surrender

Bonus: 'Good, but' or 'Bad, but'

Ep. 210: The road to 89

Ep. 209: What Cardinals Want

Bonus: General congregation backlash, and Francis' will

Bonus: “I love you. Thank you. I forgive you. Please forgive me.”

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Bonus: Blessed Triduum, eh?

Ep. 208: Freeing the imagination this Triduum, and Msgr. Burrill

Ep. 207: Living the faith with no political power

Bonus: Gratitude and something new

Ep. 206: The latest on Fr. Marko Rupnik

Ep. 205: Living the feast vs. obedience litmus test

Bonus: Driving lessons and leisure killers

Ep. 204: Smoking guns and unserious people

Bonus: Candlegate

Ep. 203: A rollercoaster in Steubenville

Bonus: The stuff of nightmares and Lists, Pt. 2

Ep. 202: The next Benevacantism

Bonus: Bad breakfast

Ep. 201: The Church's list problem

Bonus: "I'm a perfectly normal guy..."

Ep. 200: It's a good old Vatican finance deep dive!

Bonus: The death of kindness?!

Ep. 199: Praying for Francis and trouble in Newark

Bonus: Pope Francis joins U.S. immigration debate

Ep. 198: Do our clergy lack healthy ambition?

Bonus: Bishop karaoke

Ep. 197: Make due process great again

Bonus: Joe Biden and the freemasons

Ep. 196: A deacon is not Father Jr.

Bonus: Taking a stand

Ep. 195: Can 'rotten at the root' be redeemed?

Bonus: The Schmego Pirate Ship

Ep. 194: Flags and McElroy

Ep. 193: Live from Orlando!

Ep. 192: The Newsmakers of 2025

Bonus: Citrus and figs

Ep. 191: 'What’s next?’ and a news boomerang

Bonus: A dead man’s boots

Ep. 190: Gatekeeping the sacraments of initiation

Bonus: More daddies, more problems

Ep. 189: James Bond priests and business jargon

Bonus: Class anxiety

Ep. 188: Cost cutting and myth-making

Bonus: This is our fight song

Ep. 187: Live from Washington, D.C.! Is this synodality?

Bonus: Come to our live show, plz

Ep. 186: Eucharistic coherence Pt. 2?

Bonus: Election Day anxieties

Ep. 185: The Boston logjam and cutting the noise

Ep. 184: The longest synod and Dilexit nos

Ep. 183: The Fr. Ned Scheidecker Show Pt. 2

Bonus: A worship debate

Ep. 182: The Vatican's Watergate break-in

Bonus: Weight Bro Chat

Ep. 181: The final countdown

Episode delayed until Monday

Bonus: Tent Chat

Ep. 180: Hey, teacher! Leave them kids alone

Bonus: JD was wrong

Ep. 179: Pope Francis, off the cuff

Bonus: Freemasons and fried food

Ep. 178: A Church of the sacristy?

Bonus: Detachment 88

Ep. 177: H-H-A-F-L

Bonus: Vibes and big cats

Ep. 176: A land of no good choices

Bonus: 1970’s Brooklyn Italian Man

Ep. 175: Great Catholic conversation

Bonus: Breaking and Protestantism

Ep. 174: A big bet, O’Malley unchained, and Raygun

No podcast this week

Ep. 173: Müller and taking the gold

Ep. 172: More Michelle!

Bonus: A decidedly excellent jingle contest

Ep. 171: A Pillar Happening, live from Indy

Bonus: Live show chat

Ep. 170: An alligator alliance and a new act of hope

Don't miss our live show next week!

Bonus: A Francis test and a business meeting

Ep. 169: The Bachelor Pt. 2

No podcast this week

Bonus: The other Vigano

Ep. 168: Look how far we’ve come (not far)

Ep. 167: All about the U.S. bishops' meeting

No podcast this week

Bonus: Miracle on Pitch

Ep. 166: The dangers of "It couldn’t happen here"

Bonus: Gambling Chat

Ep. 165: Scout chaplains, charter schools and Candy Crush

Bonus: On Sunday, at a parish in Florida

Ep. 164: The people who walk with the Lord

Bonus: Mental health with Bishop James Conley

Bonus: Redpill Catholicism

Ep. 163: A legal battle in Washington

Bonus: Baseball chat

Ep. 162: A culture of clericalism and “Some Pig"

Bonus: The bricks

Ep. 161: Was it the Church or just the 70s?

Bonus: A frank and unguarded meeting of minds

Ep. 160: The AI that launched a thousand dunks

No episode this week

Ep. 159: It’s all about synodality, isn’t it?

Bonus: Hulk Mode

Ep. 158: Dignitas infinita and umbraphiles

Bonus: Ronnie Johnson’s whistle

Ep. 157: Visions of the good life

Bonus: Baseball, bonding and buffets

Ep. 156: Secret societies and synod on synodality pt. 55

Bonus: A conversation with Francis X. Maier

Bonus: Snowman chat

Ep. 155: The great metropolitan turnover

Bonus: Rabbit chat

Ep. 154: Espionage and conclaves

Bonus: Conclave chat

Ep. 153: Demos II

Bonus: Sneaker chat

Ep. 152: Somebody sometimes has to say no

Bonus: Ed does a thing

Ep. 151: The bad, the ugly and the banal

Bonus: The Flynn Tactic

Ep. 150: An inspiration and a reorientation

Bonus: One star for Corby

Ep. 149: How many JD Flynn lectures is that?

Bonus: Therapy and group texts

Ep. 148: Obedience and communion

Bonus: Zee accent bit

Ep. 147: Smoots, Celsius and Harvard

Bonus: False start

Ep. 146: Batting zero?

No episode this week

Bonus: All aboard the cheese train!

Ep. 145: A working week

Bonus: Stunning Tusking

Ep. 144: Chant the new Church right out of being ™

Bonus: Tirabassi and the gold

Ep. 143: Ecclesiastic People of the Year

Bonus: God rest Isaac MacGarnigal

Ep. 142: God rest Shane MacGarnigal

Bonus: 4'33

Ep. 141: God is alive, and He loves you

Bonus: Coming soon, to a diocese near you

Ep. 140: Live from Baltimore!

Bonus: Mincione's watch

Ep. 139: Better Call Sal

Bonus: Coco and Jell-O

Ep. 138: A paradigm shift and American Catholicism

Bonus: Ed’s an angry man

Ep. 137: The peripheral, marginal poor

Delayed gratification

Bonus: JD’s Roman rivalry

Ep. 136: Rome and a rabbit hole

Bonus: Hat Chat 2.0

Ep. 135: Focus group ecclesiology

Bonus: The things that set us apart from the animals

Ep. 134: Last chapter syndrome

Bonus: Baffled, befuddled and bemused

Ep. 133: Conspiracies, transfers and Mikes

Bonus: A dentist, a mechanic and the tax man

Ep. 132: Virtue, Vice and Ineptitude

Bonus: Manhunter

Ep. 131: The Diocese of Strickland

Ep. 130: We could use an apparition

Ep. 129: He doesn’t know me and he doesn’t like me

Ep. 128: The life and death of Bishop Hubbard

Ep. 127: The case against Crow

Ep. 126: Prelatures and pickleball

Ep. 125: World Youth Day Barbie

Ep. 124: It’s draft day, baby

Ep. 123: The sublime and the ridiculous

Ep. 122: Pope Francis’ Very Big Week

Ep. 121: Could we get some better wine, please?

Ep. 120: The great mystery of Orlando

Ep. 119: JD and Ed are going to Olive Garden

Ep. 118: A wedding and an onion of surprise

Ep. 117: Something remarkable in Gower

Ep. 116: Our papal clickbait episode

Ep. 115: 'Their God is my God'

Ep. 114: Word problems

Ep. 113: Our best idea yet?

Ep. 112: Eastertide resolutions

Ep. 111: It's tricky

Ep. 110: Law Man for the Lord

Ep. 109: Open the eyes of Ed’s heart

Ep. 108: Our St. Patrick’s Day episode

Ep. 107: Francis Fukuyama is an idiot

Bonus: Bishop Paprocki talks 'heretical’ cardinals

Ep. 106: There’s knavery afoot

Bonus: Catholic education with Dr. Jonathan Sanford

Ep. 105: Western wear and transatlantic trips

Ep. 104: Watches, Pavone and papal banter

Ep. 103: You are the problem, JD Flynn

Ep. 102: Let's talk about the facts

Ep. 101: God rest Benedict XVI

Ep. 100: Christmas dinner prep

Ep. 99: The Disk Code

Ep. 98: Friendly nonengagement

Ep. 97: Not a small thing

Ep. 96: Our Thanksgiving episode

Ep. 95: Baltimore Dive Bar Live Show Extravaganza

Ep. 94: Hey bishop, where’s your moxie?

Ep. 93: Who is the pope?

Ep. 92: The Church in 2D

Ep. 91: Shepherd or CEO?

Ep. 90: Let’s get down to business

Bonus hat chat: Statement hat

Ep. 89: Hat chat

Ep. 88: Have we learned nothing?

Ep. 87: A fraught episode

Ep. 86: The strange case of Arecibo

Ep. 85: God save the Queen

Ep. 84: The Fr. Ned Scheidecker Show

Ep. 83: 'One of our guys’

Ep. 82: "It's a revival!”

Ep. 81: We didn’t think anyone would come!

Ep. 80: The facets of Francis

Ep. 79: Bigger Than Albania

Ep. 78: The Bachelor?

Ep. 77: Too Many Jennifers

Ep. 76: No Jennifers

Ep. 75: Cynical Grump

Ep. 74: Flags, Wendy's and the Best Intentions

Ep. 73: Ed’s trebuchet and the news

Ep. 72: About that cardinal...

Ep. 71: See how they love one another

Ep. 70: Nancy Pelosi and Eucharistic Coherence

Ep. 69: What’s with latae sententiae penalties anyway?

Bonus: Our 'Roe v. Wade' podcast

Ep. 68: Mall watches

Ep. 67: All roads lead where?

Ep. 66: The Show Must Go On

Ep. 65: Cyndi Lauper is not ok

Ep. 64: 'The most sane person in the room’

Ep. 63: Catholic schools, and Ed is not house hunting

Ep. 62: Watches and Mary

Ep. 61: Winona Ryder and Cardinal Becciu

Ep. 60: A meaty mini-episode

Ep. 59: 'Lenten Yes or No?’

Ep. 58: The suburban parish curia

Ep. 57: ‘Synergy'

Ep. 56: Marriage, baptism, and the Super Bowl

Ep. 55: A friendly wager

Bonus: (Priestly) Life in the Big Top

Ep. 54: Do you even skijor?

Ep. 53: München and Malta

Ep. 52: Hobbits and party people

Ep. 51: Vatican II & all that jazz

Bonus: The Umbers Tapes

Ep. 50: The best Christmas quiz ever

Ep. 49: Not our Christmas Episode

Ep. 48: Must see TV

Ep. 47: A Tiger & A Cinnabon

Ep. 46: Thanksgiving crystal ball

Ep. 45: Blame JD

Ep. 44: Ed makes a documentary

Ep. 43: Live, from New Jersey!

Ep. 42: Mr. Biden goes to Rome

Ep. 41: Streetcorner Condon

Ep. 40: What's the question?

Ep. 39: A very special guest

Ep. 38: Stephen White's Swatch

Ep. 37: Green ink letters

Bonus: Trevor Williams

Ep. 36: The Pope and the platypus

Ep. 35: Graphic Design Is Our Passion

Ep. 34: Friday Night Lights

Ep. 33: How do you spell propaedeutic?

Ep. 32: Canonical Hot Takes

Ep. 31: Coronatide Redux

Ep. 30: Let's get synodal

Bonus: Rome is the Hotel California

Ep. 29: Ed loves the Olympics

Ep. 28: Let's talk about it

Ep. 27: Live, from Rome

Ep. 26: Major Crimes & Minor Leagues

Ep. 25: All Apologies

Ep. 24: The USCCB meeting (Take 2)

Ep. 23: JD and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Ep. 22: Canon Law Super Bowl

Ep. 21: Days of Fire

Bonus: The Cordileone Tapes

Ep. 20: The Truth is Out There

Ep. 19: On the Road Again

Ep. 18: Other People Ruin Everything

Ep. 17: Bishop or No Bishop?

Ep. 16: Pearl River Politics

Ep. 15: Canon Law & Order

Ep. 14: The Easter Bilby

Bonus: The Chaput Tapes

Ep. 13: JD and Ed are still friends

Ep. 12: Nicht, nicht, Elchgesicht

Ep. 11: No Prot. No.

Ep. 10: Mo Money, Mo Problems

Ep. 9: Hi, Mom

Ep. 8: The Madness of JD Flynn

Bonus: +Kurtz reflects

Ep. 7: Bo Knows

Ep. 6: Scary Octopus

Ep. 5: Yes or No

Ep. 4: Not his president?

Ep. 3: Ed Condon, Gwen Stefani Super Fan

Ep. 2: Capitol Takes & Wedding Cakes

Ep. 1: Growing Pains

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