Russell Brand & the Culture That Made Him | In Conversation
TV channels, magazines and 90s lad culture celebrated Russell Brand for years. What did that culture teach a generation about sex, consent and the sacred, and what does his conversion mean?
Mark Lambert and Katherine Bennett catch up on the week in the Church and the culture. Plus: the films we thought were innocent, Bishop Georg Bätzing's public challenge to Pope Leo over abuse, Karl Bushby's 28-year walk and what we choose to celebrate, what actually counts as "magisterial", Bishop Barron's pushback against Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco on evangelisation, and Mass with Egypt's persecuted…
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