Those parishioners are going to get uncomfortably hot.
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A report by German TV station Deutsche Welle alleges that American counterintelligence, notably the CIA, encouraged the introduction of neo-Pentecostal movements into Latin America in order to combat what they believed to be dangerous communist movements among local Catholics such as liberation theology.
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I’m angry, but not even slightly surprised by this.
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Nuns standing up to the bullies:
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Wait… I thought Indulgences were bad. One of the reasons the Protestant movement began.
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Aw, snap! 
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To be fair, remembering all 16 versions of the ten commandments is hard.
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From a different thread:
I thought about that all week, & then this appeared at Slacktivist:
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Fuck this. I wonder if this plague will infect the rest of the US government?
Glad I retired 10 years ago. If I still worked at the FDA, I wouldn’t be working at the FDA. I mean, who needs scientists and engineers to review device applications?
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Yet the previous Administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.
CHANG: OK, let’s turn to the Faith Office. I said this executive order establishes, or maybe reestablishes, the office. What would a Faith Office do?
DEROSE: Well, an office like this has existed in the White House since 2001, when George W. Bush established what he called the Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives. It helped faith-based groups navigate getting government grants to do work like run shelters or refugee resettlement programs. Melissa Rogers headed that office under both Obama and Biden. She says the spirit of the office was bipartisan, and the office had a clear goal.
MELISSA ROGERS: The government does a smart thing when it works with these organizations who know how to bring about change in people’s lives that can be transformational.
DEROSE: It’s worth noting this office was mostly dormant during the first Trump administration.
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