Dragons, plagues and Christ's return: The Book of Revelation, explained

This week on a special Halloween episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with Micah Kiel, a professor of New Testament at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minn., where he teaches a class called “Apocalypse-mania.” Micah is also the author of Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future. 

Ashley, Zac and Micah discuss:

- How Catholics should read the Book of Revelation

- Where our obsession with the apocalypse comes from

- Revelation’s (violent) critique of empire

In Signs of the Times, Ashley and Zac discuss King Charles’s monumental visit to the Vatican, Cardinal Burke saying the Latin liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica and Pete Hegseth’s decision to retain awards for soldiers who massacred hundreds of Indigenous civilians at Wounded Knee in the late 19th century.

In “As One Friend Speaks to Another,” Ashley and Zac speak to Jackson Goodman, strategic program manager at America, about his and Zac’s upcoming participation in the New York City Marathon.

Links for further reading: 

Pope Leo and King Charles make history with first-ever joint prayer service in Sistine Chapel

Cardinal Burke celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica

Analysis: Why is Pope Leo letting Cardinal Burke say the Latin Mass at the Vatican?

Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota at Wounded Knee

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