Dr. Chad Pecknold, associate professor of theology at the Catholic University of America, joins the Popecast this week to talk about the present scandal in the Church, human nature, St. Augustine's two Cities, and the papacy's role in securing the Church as a divine institution. 

Dr. Pecknold will be speaking at Healing the Breach of Trust on March 26, a day of talks at Catholic University of America and part of a series of planned conferences on the Church's current crisis. Dr. Pecknold's talk and others will be live-streamed <a href="https://livestream.com/CatholicUniversity/events/8592084">here.</a>

 

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LINKS

<ul>Chad C. Pecknold, Ph.D. – <a href="https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/pecknold-chad/index.html">BIO</a>
Healing the Breach of Trust (Session 3) - <a href="https://ihe.catholic.edu/event/healingthebreach3/">INFO</a> | <a href="https://livestream.com/CatholicUniversity/events/8592084">LIVESTREAM</a> (3/26)
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The unvarnished, non-boring history of the popes of the Roman Catholic Church – told in a way to remind us that the world and the Church’s problems today have happened plenty of times before. 

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