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\u2026is the range to which you can expand your demented paranoia.\u00a0 Forget about trivial \u201cWho killed JFK?\u201d conspiracy theories.\u00a0 Being Catholic means having an entire cosmos <\/em>in which to allow the mind to shut itself into the clean, cramped, well-lit prison cell of a single idea:<\/p>\n

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