This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac sit down with Colleen Dulle, America Magazine’s Vatican correspondent and host of the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, to speak about her new book, "Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter."

00:00 Introducing Colleen Dulle
1:55 Pope Leo's reaction to the Gaza-Israel peace initiative
4:30 Catholic priests are denied access to ICE detention facilities
6:32 What you need to know about "Dilexi Te," Pope Leo's first major teaching document
10:28 Are horses Pope Leo's favorite animal?
12:57 Introducing, "Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter"
14:22 From Catholic nerd to Vatican correspondent
17:03 A personal crisis surrounding the traditional Latin Mass
32:12 A tragic death, grieving as a Catholic and finding consolation in the Mass
35:45 Loving the Roman Catholic Church, despite crises, flaws and hypocrisy
45:35 Faith sharing: Remembering the great Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, B.V.M.

Buy Colleen’s book “Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter”: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742516/struck-down-not-destroyed-by-colleen-dulle

Pope Leo pleads for a just peace as cease-fire in Gaza holds: https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2025/10/12/pope-leo-peace-gaza-ceasefire-israel-palestine

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility: https://www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2025/10/12/eucharistic-procession-broadview-ice-jesuits-catholic-church-immigrant-detention

Roundtable: Pope Francis began ‘Dilexi Te.’ Pope Leo completed it: https://www.americamagazine.org/podcasts/2025/10/10/roundtable-pope-leo-dilexi-te-pope-francis

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians: https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2025/10/09/pope-leo-dilexi-te-summary

Pope Leo ‘very happy’ to be gifted a horse from prestigious Polish stable: https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2025/10/15/poland-pope-leo-arabian-gift-horse

Sister Jean’s legacy: A life of faith, service and basketball: https://www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus/2025/10/10/sister-jean-dies-loyola-obit-nun-basketball-catholic

Sister Jean on Jesuitical: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/03/31/sister-jean-life-lessons-book-interview-245012

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