• What does listening mean in an ecclesial context?

  • Oct 25 2023
  • Length: 43 mins
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What does listening mean in an ecclesial context?

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  • Two key words in the Catholic Church today are “listening” and “learning” – this is especially true in the recent flurry of documents on Synodality. Pope Francis has defined a synodal Church as a listening Church. And in the Instrumentum Laboris, the working document prepared ahead of the meeting of Bishops in Rome this October, we read that a Church committed to listening means a Church that is “humble [and that] has much to learn”. 


    But what does listening mean in an ecclesial context? What does the Church need to learn and from whom? More concretely, how can Catholics around the world be better in the actual practice of spiritual listening and learning? 


    To discuss these questions and more, we are joined in this podcast by Kevin Gary. Kevin is a Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University in the United States. Much of Kevin’s work focuses on the philosophy of education, and he has recently written a book that I think is just fantastic: Why Boredom Matters: Education and the Quest for a Meaningful Life. It’s published by Cambridge University Press.


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