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Podcast: Not Quite Great Books: a TV podcast
Episode: 58. The Young Pope, ”Episode Two”
Description: Kangaroos and severe speeches and emotional turmoil, oh my! John and summer 2023 co-host Regan are back for the second episode of Young Pope. They consider kangaroos and motherhood (seriously), Lenny's self-conflict as it plays out in his "invisible Pope" proclamation and remarkable address to the crowd of St. Peter's Square, Catholicism's relation to sex and the body, Voiello's attempts at charity, and Sister Mary's role in the Vatican.
Meanwhile, Hot Priest Rating and Aquinas Time in The Cave continue, and they find plenty of time for digressions on Salinger bros, Harvard and the ivory tower, St. Anthony's pa...