Hour 2: The Catholic Church has 1.2 billion members worldwide. And an increasing percentage of those members are coming from Africa, Asia and Latin America – in part because of the church’s education and health programs there. We’ll talk about the church’s global reach this hour with Robert Calderisi, an economist and author of Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development (Yale University Press).
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