Why I Am Catholic: Part the Fourth (or: Poof! Souls!)

Confronting Emily’s insidious linguistic errors, the girls jockey for the position of podcast’s top grammarian. Also, Catholicism is good! The film about which Emily talks extensively is the 1986 documentary “Mother Teresa”, directed by Ann and Jeanette Petrie.

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