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“The God of California”

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The Vatican has a new document out warning against New Age religion (“the god of California” says one cardinal, in an apt phrase), but doesn’t take a hard line against any of it. “There is no condemnation here,” says a key archbishop. Ugh. Rome should talk to its own exorcists.

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