Hello and welcome to Focus the Cat Against Podcast for the Living Understanding and Defending

Your Catholic Faith.

I'm Sy Kelly, your host, and one of the things among the many that modern people accused

the Church of as a kind of accommodation, slavery, or maybe even an encouragement of slavery.

And so if you're going to be occupied with defending the faith, you ought to have at least

some sense of what is the real history of the Church in relation to slavery.

We have a great guest to talk about this hour, Dr. Paul Kangour, he's the professor of

Political Science and Executive Director of the Institute for Faith and Freedom at Grove

City College.

He's the author of a bunch of books, including a pope and a president, John Paul II, Ronald

Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century.

His new book, The Worst of Indignities, the Catholic Church on Slavery is out this summer

from a Mayus Road press, Dr. Kangour.

Thank you for being with us.

So it's going to be with you again.

Thank you, sir.

We know, look, Pope Francis comes to America, he's going to say something about how the

Church opposes slavery and modern popes do that.

But here's what I think most people are going to say, yeah, of course the Church opposes

slavery now, but it didn't come out in opposition to slavery till the 19th century or something.

It's really just following the lead of the modern world.

Yeah, that's complete nonsense.

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