Joe Biden's Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, was in the news again in recent days, after a relatively quiet time in office after his confirmation by the Senate. He was again taking up again a hobby for which he was famous in his former role as Attorney General of California: bullying Catholic nuns.

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A judge discounted the freedom of religion argument posed by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ

Almost all who have had the privilege of being educated in convents remember nuns whose lives were ones of fulfilment, vigour and purpose

The Pontiff told participants at a Vatican event on religious life that the loss of clergy is weakening the Church

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Mother Marie Adele Garnier claimed she saw a consecrated host bleed in the hands of a priest