This week’s episode of “Jesuitical” features a conversation with journalist Helene Stapinski and her son, Dean Jamieson, a fiction writer from Brooklyn who, now in his 20s, finds himself drawn to the Catholic Church his mother left behind two decades ago because of the sex abuse crisis.

0:00 Intro
0:32 Helene's faith journey
4:58 Dean's relationship with the Catholic Church growing up
6:01 Raising children and family relationships after leaving the Church
7:47 How Dean became “Catholic curious”
10:13 Dean's writing and its connection to Catholicism
11:52 Reactions to Dean's turn to Catholicism
13:26 What's your experience of the liturgy? And why Latin Mass?
14:27 Dean, do you have any hang ups with the Catholic Church?
15:14 The supernatural, mystical and spiritual
16:09 Finding a welcoming community in the Church
17:48 What does it mean to identify as Catholic?
18:26 What do we believe in as Catholics?
20:09 Helene's conversation with a local priest
21:57 Would you give the Church a second look?
22:13 What's next for you, Dean?
23:10 If you could canonize one person, who would it be and why?

“Turning Out, Tuning In? I left the Church, but now my twenty-something kids seem drawn to it,” Helene Stapinski's piece: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/turning-out-tuning

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