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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— A new damning report examined sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Illinois. (0:55)

— Even the most dedicated Catholics are walking away from Church services. (21:23)

— A new Florida law allows four minutes of loudspeaker prayers at high school playoff games. (32:13)

— The Jehovah's Witnesses are trying to pretend they didn't create two videos promoting disfellowshipping/shunning. (41:32)

— A Christian school fired two staffers for including their pronouns in emails. (1:00:08)

— A Satanist is suing Chicago for ignoring his "Hail Satan" invocation request. (1:14:50)

— Why did a Florida county honor conspiracy theorist and preacher Rodney Howard-Browne? (1:22:00)

— Why did the Texas Ten Commandments bill fail? Not because Republicans opposed it... (1:29:45)

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