Catholics in Ordinary Time – Details, episodes & analysis

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Catholics in Ordinary Time

Fr. Jack Bentz S.J.

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 15

Hello everyone, and welcome to Catholics in Ordinary Time, a podcast where we listen to Catholics. Pretty simple really. I'm a Jesuit Catholic priest with questions about how Catholics practice their faith or why they quit. Everyone has a story and I want to hear more.

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🇩🇪 Germany - Christianity
18/09/2025
#94
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Christianity
16/09/2025
#82
🇩🇪 Germany - Christianity
16/09/2025
#47
🇩🇪 Germany - Religion & Spirituality
16/09/2025
#88
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Christianity
14/09/2025
#74
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Christianity
13/09/2025
#46
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Religion & Spirituality
13/09/2025
#84

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Ann Marie Pace: on identity, storytelling, and staying true

Season 2 · Episode 4

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 42:57

Ann Marie Pace is a writer and director based in Los Angeles—Mexican American and proud of it, shaped by a life spent exploring identity. From her thesis film shot in the Amazon to directing for Disney+, she tells stories that bridge worlds and make space for voices that don’t always see themselves reflected.

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time, Ann Marie sits down with Fr Jack to talk about the art of belonging, resilience, and finding your truth when you don’t fit in just one box. It’s a conversation about the power of storytelling to heal, connect, and invite us home.

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

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Alyssa Duffner: faith that makes room

Season 2 · Episode 3

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 • Duration 43:40

Alyssa Duffner shares with Fr Jack her journey of holding faith and identity together and why she continues to find a home in the Catholic Church. It is a conversation about honesty, resilience, and the hope for a community where all know they belong.

I hope you like this conversation I certainly did

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Yunuen Trujillo: finding faith and building community

Season 2 · Episode 2

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 • Duration 46:48

Yunuen Trujillo is a Catholic lay minister attorney and author of LGBT Catholics: A Guide to Inclusive Ministry She brings her faith into action through her work with immigrant rights LGBTQ ministry and community building in Los Angeles

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time Yunuen sits down with Fr Jack to share her story of faith her life in the Church and the ways she works to create spaces of welcome and belonging

It’s a conversation about resilience advocacy and staying rooted in faith even when the path is complicated

I hope you like this conversation I certainly did

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S2 Introduction: What It Means To Remain

Season 2 · Episode 1

Wednesday, August 20, 2025 • Duration 04:22

In the first episode of Season 2, Fr Jack opens the door to a new series of conversations. This season of Catholics in Ordinary Time is about queer women who have chosen to remain in the Catholic Church. Some have found ways to adjust their lives to Church teaching. Others stay while holding tension with it.

Through these voices, the season will explore what it means to belong, to question, and to hold faith in a community that doesn’t always feel simple or easy.

This is not about giving all the answers. It is about listening with honesty, humility, and hope.

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

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Season One Wrap-Up: Big Lessons from Honest Conversations

Season 1 · Episode 11

Friday, August 15, 2025 • Duration 13:42

In this season finale of Catholics in Ordinary Time, Fr Jack looks back at the conversations he’s had with young adults over the past months. From the questions they carry to the hope they hold, he reflects on what he’s learned from listening to their stories.

It’s part gratitude, part reflection, and part invitation to keep the conversation going into next season.

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Grace Cotangco: On Showing up, Serving and Choosing Your Family Parish

Season 1 · Episode 10

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 • Duration 38:20

Grace Cotangco lives and works in Los Angeles where she actively serves as a lector musician and youth minister in the parish she chose as her own

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time she sits down with Fr Jack to talk about what it means to show up where you are called to be even when it’s not the parish you grew up in

It’s a story about service music and finding your place in the Church with joy and intentionality

I hope you like this conversation I certainly did

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Vivi Jaramillo: on questions, conviction, and carrying both

Season 1 · Episode 9

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 • Duration 50:54

Vivi Jaramillo is a musician and songwriter living in Los Angeles, originally from Ecuador. Her music blends raw emotion, spiritual depth, and Latin roots—an offering of beauty, honesty, and belonging.

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time, Vivi talks with Fr Jack about how she came into the Catholic faith, through doubts, through questions, and through moments of deep beauty. This conversation goes there. It’s real, personal, and full of the kind of honesty that invites others to look at their own story with gentleness and courage.

You can find Vivi’s work at vivijamusic.com or any music platform under "Vivija"

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did

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Alex Street: on music, ministry, and following the call beyond the lines

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • Duration 55:11

Alex Street is a musician and youth minister now serving at a non Catholic church in Boise Idaho. He once worked for a Catholic parish but over time his path led him somewhere new. Still centered on Christ still rooted in service but shaped by unexpected turns

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time Alex talks with Fr Jack about ministry music leaving and longing and what it means to keep showing up for young people even as your spiritual home shifts

It’s a story about listening to the call
Even when it sounds different than expected

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did

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Keaton Andersen: on church shifts and spiritual threads

Season 1 · Episode 7

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 • Duration 47:48

Keaton was raised Catholic but found himself drawn into a different kind of church community as a young adult, a non denominational church in Colorado that felt like home

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time he talks with Fr Jack about growing up in the faith what pulled him away and what keeps him connected to something deeper even as the path looks different

It’s a conversation about tradition and transformation
About questions and belonging
And about the grace of being honest with where you are

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did

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Maggie Miller: on art, doubt, and searching far from home

Season 1 · Episode 6

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Duration 46:42

Maggie Miller grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in France where she’s studying art history and navigating life far from everything familiar. In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time she joins Fr Jack for an honest conversation about faith beauty and what it means to keep searching especially when belief doesn’t come easy

They talk about doubt distance and the quiet ways art and culture invite deeper questions

This is a story about being in between
And choosing to stay curious

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

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Catholics in Ordinary Time – Details, episodes & analysis

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Spotify

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Amazon2

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