Charismatic, combative, and silver-tongued, Fr. Thomas Hagerty waged a life-long struggle for the working class, all while remaining “as Catholic as the pope.”
On this episode, spoken-word poet and professor Joshua Bennett shares his love for the art form, highlighting its capacity for community-building and liberation.
“In a high-tech, evidence-driven world of contemporary medicine, it was a dream that led a physician to conclude that my wife was dying. How was that possible?”
“I would like to offer the possibility that polarization has been the defining experience of U.S. Catholics for the past 50 years, but that alienation is the defining experience of young people.”
