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Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil

Sacred and Profane Love

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The Challenge of American Catholicism

American Catholicism, in particular, has a special struggle with the role of beauty and art. And I think that's just because we've been placed in this Protestant context where we're sort of defensive or putting a defensive posture. So our challenge is to recreate the language of beauty and you reunited with faith.

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