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Podcast: First Things Podcast
Episode: Timothy Cusick on Evangelical Poverty
Description: Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Fr. Timothy Cusick to talk about his article from the March print edition, βPriestly Poverty.β They discuss how the clerical abuse scandal undermined the authority of the priesthood in the eyes of many Catholics, and how a new emphasis on evangelical poverty might restore public trust.