Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

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These are two articles by Father Daniel Haran or Father Dan Haran.

He is a Franciscan priest, publishes the National Catholic Reporter, and I would like to dive

into these articles and talk about them because I'm doing a lot of research for my book

on liberal Catholicism and how it strays towards the edges of orthodoxy and threatens to run

over a cliff.

And none of us want to have that happen.

So we're going to jump into it and talk about this today.

Father Haran has also written several books, one academic book.

He's also written, I think, I forget the title when I thought my head.

I think it's a white Catholics guide to racism.

He promotes modern anti-racism, not just the church's longstanding condemnations of racism,

but a modern perspective on it that, in many respects, is incompatible with things

that the Catholic Church teaches.

Now, I'll get into that in a future episode.

I'll be addressing that in my book as well.

But today I want to talk about these articles that he's written.

So he's not familiar with Father Dan Haran.

He's basically a Franciscan Father James Martin.

I'm sure Father Dan would consider that a compliment.

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