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Making world history
In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, Austen Ivereigh talks about the content of the document and the communal discernment process that those present engaged in, in order to produce it. He also wrote about his ‘insider’ experience in an article for the US Jesuit publication America.
‘Field hospital’: a podcast interview
A podcast interview with Where Peter Is founder editor, Mike Lewis, and Jeannie Gaffigan.
Latin America’s first continent-wide church assembly: Here’s what happened.
At the end of November I spent a week in Mexico at the invitation of CELAM, the umbrella body of Latin-American bishops’ conferences, to attend the region’s first “Ecclesial Assembly,” in which a 1,000-strong mix of bishops, clergy, religious and lay people gathered to discuss the pastoral priorities of the Church in the post-Covid era.
I was interviewed about why I had come (in Spanish) shortly after arriving, gave a 3-minute reflection to the assembly (here, at 37’25, also in Spanish), and, after returning took part in a podcast for America magazine, which later published the following article with my reflections (including some criticisms) of a remarkable and important event.
Podcast: The Pope Francis Summer Reading List
Austen Ivereigh joins host Colleen Dulle to discuss three literary works that have shaped Pope Francis in America Media’s “Inside the Vatican” podcast.
Writing with Pope Francis
Austen Ivereigh joined "Inside the Vatican" host Colleen Dulle to discuss his collaboration with Pope Francis on the new book "Let Us Dream”.
Austen Ivereigh discusses Pope Francis' vision for a post-Covid world
Pope Francis has set out his vision for a post-Covid world in a new book with a strong focus on social, economic and political issues. Let Us Dream is written in conversation with Austen Ivereigh, the papal biographer and a former deputy editor of The Tablet. Here, Austen talks about some of the ideas in the book, and their possible impact.
Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis and the Catholic Media
In today’s episode of Peter’s Field Hospital, DW Lafferty and I are joined by papal biographer and journalist Austen Ivereigh, who recently conducted an interview with Pope Francis, the first of his papacy directed specifically to English-speaking Catholics. We discussed how the interview came about and why he decided to publish it in Commonweal and The Tablet, and how Francis took the opportunity to deliver a strong message of conversion.