He launched a litany of complaints about the Church that I'd come to hear over and over: it was the most reactionaryforce in the world, anti-Semitic, misogynist, homophobic....the Vatican...the Crusades...
NPR: Excerpt: 'Take This Bread'
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In Mr Dray's view it has become a conservative, even reactionary, force that struggles to safeguard jobs, wages and benefits, not to improve them.