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Saints are people just like (presumably) you and me: But hopefully unlike you and me, they often meet their Maker in the most bizarre, tragic ways imaginable. Katie, a literature-loving attorney, and her fiance, Andrew, a history-loving film buff, are two Catholic school survivors. While we didn’t learn how to do taxes, we did spend plenty of hours learning Catholic dogma. Join us every Friday as we explore the histories and lore surrounding the holy individuals recognized by the Catholic Church as saints (with a bit of dark humor inherited from religion class).

On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop. On that historic day, LDS church president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church's 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.