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Assessing U.S. Visit of Pope Francis | October 2, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

October 7, 2015
"The pope looks at the world in a different way. He looks at the world, he looks at economics, he looks at the environment, politics from the bottom up, from the outside in, and those aren't Washington's priorities or Washington's ways. So we've had an alternative vision and a great example, and my hope is we listened, we learned, and we maybe even might follow his example," says John Carr, director of Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. More →

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Impact of Pope's U.S. Visit | September 25, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

September 29, 2015
American Catholics, says Rev. Thomas Reese of National Catholic Reporter, live out their faith in the local parish, and "they want to meet somebody like Pope Francis. And if the clergy and the bishops and the people aren’t like Pope Francis, or namely like Jesus, more welcoming, compassionate, loving, they’re going to turn around and never come back." More →

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Father James Halstead Extended Interview | September 25, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

September 29, 2015
“The American post-Enlightenment contractual idea of marriage—that is, marriage is what we decide it is—is an incredibly powerful idea that haunts the minds of American Catholics…The under-65 crowd is much more into contractual understandings of marriage than covenantal understandings of … More →

Source: Father James Halstead Extended Interview | September 25, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

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