152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson
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Abby and Patrick discuss the contemporary Catholic Church's politics and social significance with guest Jack Hanson.
Abby and Patrick welcome writer, critic, and religion scholar Jack Hanson for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation about the politics and social significance of the contemporary Catholic Church. With Jack’s new piece in Harper’s, “Radical Reformation: The Catholic Church’s Progressive Revival,” as a guide, the three put the accession of the Chicago-born Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV into the context of the Church’s complicated relationship with modern geopolitics, economic pressures, an...
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