{"id":118446,"date":"2025-08-15T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/?post_type=story&#038;p=118446"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:43:07","slug":"what-fr-jack-bentz-sj-is-learning-from-young-catholics","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/what-fr-jack-bentz-sj-is-learning-from-young-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, Is Learning from Young Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118447 aligncenter\" src=index-529.html alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bentz-podcast-twitter.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bentz-podcast-twitter-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bentz-podcast-twitter-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, is a Jesuit priest who works in campus ministry at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He also has a new podcast called \u201c<strong><a href=other/_ target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholics in Ordinary Time<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d which is just an awesome title. The podcast was inspired in large part by his work during the Synod on Synodality at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Hollywood, where he served before moving to Spokane. The parish conducted a whole bunch of listening sessions, just as thousands of parishes around the country did, and Fr. Jack liked that approach. So his new podcast is centered on conversations with all different sorts of Catholics, with him serving as the interviewer and listener as his guests share their stories of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Host Mike Jordan Laskey really likes the idea behind his show, because while there are so many different Catholic podcasts out there hosted by members of the clergy, podcasting priests are usually in the position of explainer, apologist or teacher. There\u2019s certainly a place for those types of shows, but in this flipped format, Fr. Jack models how a synodal church is a listening church.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=indexc6b7.html?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2140366809&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\%22 width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast\" href=index-530.html target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"What Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, Is Learning from Young Catholics\" href=index-531.html target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, Is Learning from Young Catholics<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Fr. Jack and Mike talked about the things Fr. Jack has learned about today\u2019s young adults through his work at Gonzaga and at Blessed Sacrament, not to mention his decades of ministry in settings like theatre and other university campus ministry locations. Fr. Jack also shared a bit about his own vocation story, and how a kid growing up on a cattle ranch in rural Oregon came to be a Jesuit. You can find &#8220;Catholics in Ordinary Time&#8221; wherever you get podcasts and check out Fr. 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