It’s been four months since we relaunched Tomorrow’s American Catholic along with this podcast. Between January and April, we released 14 episodes with over 2,600 downloads, and we have many more cued up for release and scheduled to record.
As we concluded this initial cycle, we thought it might be fruitful to pause and reflect with our podcast co-facilitators, Patrick Carolan, Barbara Mariconda, and Michael Centore, about how the process is unfolding. In our mission statement when we launched our new website, we spoke of trying to create a “sustained and multimodal conversation.” This episode is really just an extension of that: we’ve come up with a few guiding questions to help us think through what we’ve been learning, where we’re finding hope, and how our understanding of the church is evolving through these podcast encounters.
We’re also seeing this episode as part and parcel of our seasonal survey, inviting our listeners and readers to reflect with us as we develop our animating question: Who is tomorrow’s American Catholic, and how is their understanding of themselves, their faith, and their church evolving in time?
