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April 22nd, 2025

Mixed Feelings: Pope Francis Special Mini | Episode 60

  1. Mixed Feelings: Pope Francis Special Mini | Episode 60 Brent van Staalduinen 18:56

The death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 has predictably generated a tsunami of Emotions rushing in from around the globe. Looking past the shiny progressive tributes, flowery words, Vatican-generated propaganda, and wasn’t-he-fabulous refrains, Brent & Dave pause for a moment to suggest that his work isn’t nearly finished, and the Church still hasn’t answered for an awful lot of horrors it has inflicted on the vulnerable and marginalized.

Rejected Central is a human podcast hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, follow us online and social media, and let us know what you think. Thanks for listening!

Brent van Staalduinen Rejected Central Podcast

I am the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels UNTHINKABLE, NOTHING BUT LIFE, BOY, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, as well as the story collection CUT ROAD. My stories appear in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and have won the Bristol Short Story Prize, The Fiddlehead Best Fiction Award, the Lush Triumphant Literary Award, and numerous other accolades. A recovering army medic, tree planter, radio announcer, and high school English teacher, I now spend my time podcasting, writing, teaching, and figuring out what it means to be a family man.