Writer and cradle Catholic Jack Hanson (author of the Harper's cover story "Holy War" and the newsletter “Phantom Heresy”) joins host Francesca Root-Dodson to break down liberation theology: a "preferential option for the poor" built on the idea that God is most present among the marginalized, the church should stand in solidarity with common workers (rather than the elites), and that faith and justice aren't separate projects—they’re one and the same.


Also discussed: Jack explains why the American left needs to stop treating pro-life belief as a punchline, how Archbishop Romero was gunned down mid-Mass for putting liberation theology into practice, why woke politics became a scapegoat for the Democrats' deeper failures, and how Catholic labor movements prove that religion and radical politics were never mutually exclusive.


Jack’s talk Magnifica: Pope Leo and the Church in the 21st Century with Matthew Clemente at the Sheen Center September 30th at 7pm


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