Often because the people who are most likely to be involved in this are white and a lot of them are white men there's just the sort of impression around this issue that you know this is a white issue or this is an issue

of priests who are abusing white teenage boys.

And I'm looking through these files.

It's just so clear that that is not the case.

From Crooked Media, this is unholyer than now.

I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

Okay, y'all, I hope you are full from your Thanksgiving dinner still,

and because Thanksgiving is officially over,

that means it's time to cue the Mariah Carey.

Holiday season is upon us.

And as we are listening to our holiday music

and some of us are getting into the Christmas spirit and you know I think

Maria Carey's holiday music is secular but that's just my very homosexual opinion.

We are also going to be thinking about what this time of year means for

spiritual worship and spiritual practice. If you're anything like me, especially in my

past life, I would only go to church on Christmas. It was the only time that I ever

actually stepped inside the Catholic Church in earnest. I felt like if we're

going to be doing all this celebrating and all of this gluttony and all these presents,

then the least I can do is show up for Jesus on the day of his birth.

And the church was always, of course, packed on Christmas.

Never packed any other day of the year, at least in my hometown,

but always packed on Christmas, something that my dad always lamented

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