What the Lost Sheep parable says about individuality, tribalism and communion

This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley sit down with Luke Burgis, the director of the Cluny Institute at The Catholic University of America and the author of The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. They discuss why we join and leave tribes, how to form a “solid” self and what healthy group identity looks like.

In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir on converting to Catholicism, the consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and new statutes for the Vatican’s commission for the protection of minors. Plus, Pope Leo wraps up his successful trip to Spain on the Canary Islands—but has some trouble getting off them.

And in As One Friend Speaks to Another, Zac shares what he’s thinking about going into his very first Father’s Day.

0:00 Intro

3:30 J.D. Vance’s new book “Communion”

9:36 U.S. bishops meet for annual meeting in Orlando

19:44 Pope Leo finishes Spain trip

21:39 Papal plane trouble

24:25 Interview with Luke Burgis

25:52 The parable of the lost sheep

31:16 The age of social contagion

33:56 What Luke learned in seminary