Lessons From Peter Damian

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with senior editor Mark Bauerlein. In this episode Charlotte Allen joins mark to discuss the 11th-century monastic Peter Damian and what the Catholic Church today should learn from his “Liber Gomorrhianus.”

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