In coal country, a Catholic priest fights for environmental issues

September 24, 2015

Joie Chen meets the Rev. John Rausch, who has spent 40 years defending the poor in Appalachia

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In coal country, a Catholic priest fights for environmental issues

How is Pope Francis’ message on protecting the environment going over with blue-collar Catholics? In this America Tonight excerpt, Joie Chen meets with the Rev. John Rausch, a priest in rural eastern Kentucky, who has spent years fighting for environmental causes and social justice in a deeply conservative region where the economy has suffered from the collapse of coal industry.


 

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