Catholic Controversies

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Robert Blair Kaiser outlines some of the most divisive issues facing Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church—from sex scandals to the role of women in the clergy to contraception—in A Church in Search of Itself. He’ll tell us what he thinks these debates could mean for the future of the Church, and for the lives of America’s 64 million Catholics.

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