Monday Morning Politics; Vatican Summit Against Clerical Sex Abuse; Trump's North Korea Summit; Black Migrations 4

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 25, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Domenico Montanaro, politics editor at NPR, breaks down the latest political news out of Washington - and the election fraud story from North Carolina.
  • Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, and author of Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century (Liturgical Press, 2017), and Natalia Imperatori-Lee, professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College in the Bronx with a focus on feminist and Latinx theologies, discuss the steps the Catholic Church is taking to prevent sexual abuse by members of its clergy.
  • Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), discusses the upcoming North Korea summit.
  • The theme for African American history month this year is "Black Migrations." Every Monday in Feb, Gloria Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, civil rights attorney, ASALH board member and chair of the 400th Commemoration, and author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present (Routledge, 2007), will join Brian and the callers to explore different facets of the theme. This week: returning to the South.

 

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