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“Freedom of worship was guaranteed in the constitution of the former Soviet Union,” Cardinal George wrote in a column in the Catholic New World. “You could go to church, if you could find one. The church, however, could do nothing except conduct religious rites in places of worship — no schools, religious publications, health care institutions, organized charity, ministry for justice and works of mercy that flow naturally from a living faith. We fought a long Cold War to defeat that vision of society.”