POPE FRANCIS AND THE MEDIA, RESISTANCE TO FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, FLANNERY O'CONNOR

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Edward Pentin, Senior Correspondent at The National Catholic Register with a report on Pope Francis' address and message to the journalists accredited to the Vatican. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former head of the Vatican's doctrinal office (CDF) comments on the increasing controversy and backlash surrounding "Fiducia Supplicans", the Vatican directive on blessings of same sex couples and couples in "irregular situations". Nina Shea, director of The Center for Religious Freedom at The Hudson Institute on the state of the religious persecution of Christians around the world. Jessica Hooten-Wilson, author and The Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University talks about her new project compiling and editing a heretofore unpublished novel by the late Flannery O'Connor...Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind the Scenes Look At A Work in Progress.