But even more jarring than this veneer of the social Gospel over the particle board of race-mongering was the complete revision of the parable of the Prodigal Son. The father became the mother, the son became the non-gendered "younger sibling," and the older brother who stayed behind to work in the fields became "the elder child." Compounding the dissonance was the use of the plural pronoun "they" to describe each child, the wayward and the faithful.

It's a lot for a message that intentionally contains little.

"If God is infinite, eternal and indescribable and uncontainable, no religion can contain God. Indeed, no words can contain God," Robertsons declares as "someone who's always on a journey" in a March 24 video.

Bishop Egan sent his ad clerum to diocesan clerics after a local newspaper published extracts of the friar's 15-minute homily on Tuesday, branding it an "appalling" and "distressing" sermon from the "Stone Age."

Portsmouth diocese immediately apologized and condemned Fr. Ebanks' sermon for its "inflammatory language," stating that it "disagree[d] with the statements that have been made and would emphasize that the Catholic Church respects and welcomes all people."

Vladimir Putin not only inherits the name of that famous Rus prince but he was also secretly baptized by his devout Russian Orthodox Christian mother. Putin considers himself to be the righteous warrior, the defender of the true Russian world that includes all of that old Rus' Empire. He, therefore, inherits the militant religious nationalism of Czar Peter the Great, whose czarship Putin emulates with the collusion of the Moscow Patriarchy.