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Leopolds Ghost

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2. Saddens me but not because I expected much better from the Catholic Church, note.

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Tue Apr 10, 2012, 01:21 AM

Apr 2012

The Catholic Church has a long and proud history of purging leftists -- including homegrown leftists -- from its ranks.

I guess feeding the homeless counts as leftist in their eyes since it wasn't approved by the proper protocols.

Even if you get a local diocese that supports positive social change, the higher-ups are sure to remove that person and quash it.

I want to say this is the sort of authoritarianism that gives religion a bad name, but the truth of the matter is any other church would have done it at the request of their parishioners, or neighbors, because 53% of this country is reactionary people who refuse to imagine that they are not part of an entitled overclass.

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