On this episode, Chris is joined once more by Jason Adkins, the Executive Director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference.  They dive into two graduate courses that Jason teaches at St. Paul Seminary, “Politics and the New Evangelization” and “Catholicism and U.S. Politics.”  The conversation ranges from JPII to Alexis de Toqueville, Archbishop John Ireland to Richard John Neuhaus.

-Evangelium Vitae

– Living the Gospel of Life

-Christifideles Laici

-Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

-Laudato Si

-Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life

-Democracy in America

– American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (book and article summary)