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How I Met the Bishops’ Deep State Blase Cupich key member of 'Lavender Underground' for 40 years During the Reagan administration, I served as staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere. I spent most of my time dealing with Latin American policy, especially the Communist subversion going on in Central America. Visitors came by my office to lobby all the time, among them representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). One of them was a Franciscan friar who is now the cardinal-archbishop of Boston, Sean O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap.  Other "Catholic" groups, lay and religious, came by as well, predominantly on the Left. Some of them were professional agitators. That was...