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In Confidential Interviews, Catholic Bishops Talk COVID, Joe Biden, Pope Francis
The cultural and political weaknesses of the Catholic Church gave rise to a common sentiment from bishops, in Maier’s phrasing: “we’re generals without armies, and the civil authorities know it.”