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When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.
"There is always the risk that we will forget we are merely playing pretend and begin living inside our own fictions. Or that we become so resigned to this state of affairs that we forget that things used to be different, and could still be."
In the second episode of "The City and the Cross," host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the resistance to the 1989 parish closures in Detroit, which became the blueprint for urban parish consolidations across the country.