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Moyers & Company

The Pope, Poverty and Poetry

Season 2 Episode 52

This week on Moyers & Company, Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms and former Poet Laureate Philip Levine, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry.

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