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Kresta in the Afternoon – June 26, 2024 – Hour 1

We continue from Acton University, talking Catholic education with Sean Maltbie and the mistakes of the New Deal with Kevin Schmiesing. 

 

Revitalizing Catholic Education

The St. John Henry Newman Institute seeks to help educational institutions form students who have a deep desire to know God, create opportunities for communities to experience liturgical elements that channel their faith, and to help schools create a thriving school culture. Sean Maltbie joins us with more.

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Sean Maltbie is the President of Sacred Heart Academy and Director of External Resources for St John Henry Newman Institute.

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The New Deal: A Mistake We’re Still Living With

Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States government in the 1930s initiated a host of new programs designed to combat the Great Depression and improve the material welfare of the American people. Contrary to the positive popular and academic assessment that has predominated in the decades since, these programs generally did not accomplish their aims, generated an array of negative consequences, and fundamentally reoriented American attitudes toward government. Kevin Schmiesing is our guest.

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Kevin Schmiesing is the author of A Catholic Pilgrimage through American History: People and Places that Shaped the Church in the United States. He lectures on Church history for Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati, Ohio, and serves as director of research at the Freedom and Virtue Institute. He served as a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty from 1999 to 2020. He also cohosts the podcast Catholic History Trek on Spotify and YouTube and has contributed to Catholic World Report and Crisis magazine.

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