In this episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn is joined by Matthew Bunson.

Matthew Bunson is the Vice President and Editorial Director for EWTN, Senior Editor of the National Catholic Register, a Senior Fellow at the St. Paul Center, author and co-author of over 60 books, and a faculty member at Catholic International University.

Together, Dr. Hahn and Bunson discuss the uniqueness of an American pope, why Pope Leo embodies the best of American Catholicism, and how Pope Leo defies categories like “liberal” and “conservative.”

Bunson also shares with Scott his latest book Leo XIV: Portrait of the First American Pope.

Join us for this insightful discussion of our first American pope.

00:00 Introduction
04:50 The first English Biography of Leo
07:43 Heir to the Legacy of American Catholicism
11:21 The Times of Robert Prevost
19:13 Robert Prevost's Vocation & Education
23:45 Bucking Trends, Defying Categories
31:58 Prevost in Peru
33:34 Catholicism Without Labels
37:05 Reviving Leo XIII’s Social Doctrine
46:14 Leo and the Hermeneutic of Continuity
50:04 A Son of St. Augustine

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