Podcast

Dots on a Map

In the third and final episode of “The City and the Cross,” host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson reckons with what was truly lost in Detroit’s 1989 parish closures and asks whether the Catholic Church is any more committed to its Black congregants today. 

A Padlock on All the Doors

In the second episode of "The City and the Cross," host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the resistance to the 1989 parish closures in Detroit, which became the blueprint for urban parish consolidations across the country.