In recent decades, the Vatican
apparatus has found the means to reach deep into the ranks of the
faithful to banish, condemn, excommunicate and otherwise impose
disciplines on those who advanced a discordant idea or advocated for the
wrong cause or dared to question the exclusion of women from any
meaningful level of decision-making within the church.
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