Catholicism & Politics | The Simpleton Podcast with Clark Massey & Laura Hehman

Clark and Laura discuss why (and when) Catholics should get involved in politics in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast!

Also in this episode:

• Listener feedback (and our responses)

• The culture of mission work

• Boeing, Israel-Palestine episode follow-ups

• American exceptionalism

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0:00 Intro & preview

0:30 Listener feedback! (broadly)

1:20 Catholicism & politics

14:20 Mission work and the culture around it

21:21 American exceptionalism

32:16 Evil is a 4-letter word

36:27 A black swan event and Doomers

42:26 Future episode previews

42:43 Listener feedback! (specifically) / Boeing ep. comments

50:42 Israel-Palestine (and why we've taken down two TSP episodes)

51:42 More listener feedback

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