Hour 1 for 4/24/26

Drew welcomes Father Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C. from the University of Notre Dame to discuss his new book Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America(1:00). Topics/calls: if suburbanization an American phenomenon (8:55), what is lost in suburbanization (11:00), architecture (15:38), I was forced out of suburbs (21:56), growing up in a Polish neighborhood (27:51), the clergy-laity dynamic (30:30), missing the communities of urban life (33:34), Catholic education (40:41), parish competition (44:03), politics (46:27), and growing up in Levittown (48:31).

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Father’s book: Crabgrass Catholicism

Original Air Date: 4/9/26