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Kresta in the Afternoon – December 21, 2023 – Hour 1

At #21 in our Countdown, Paul Kengor reviews the history of the Church’s war against slavery.

 

#21 The Church's War Against Slavery

Many Americans think of slavery as their nation’s original sin. But in truth, slavery has involved peoples and cultures and countries far beyond the United States. Slavery is as old as human history itself. And yet, the one living institution that has condemned slavery longer and more consistently than any other is the Roman Catholic Church. Paul Kengor joins us.

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Roman Catholics: The Original Abolitionists

Paul Kengor is author of several books, most recently The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery. His other books include The Devil and Bella Dodd, The Devil and Karl Marx, and A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. He has also written spiritual biographies of Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and George W Bush. He’s professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., and senior academic fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom and is the editor of the American Spectator.
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