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In his youth, Emil Lundin became obsessed with the idea of recording the world’s “most evil album.” The lanky, long-haired Swede formed a black-metal band and set to work. He faced an immediate obstacle. In making history’s most nefarious musical creation, he could hardly use Swedish, with its singsong tones. English was also out of the question: he didn’t want to sound like ABBA. That left Latin, the native tongue of the occult and, it is said, of demons. In a quest for suitably devilish lyrics, he pored over arcane texts. That led him to Latin editions of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers – badass early Christian monks –

It highlights the fact that the pontiff has a major consistency problem in the area of international relations

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Did any of the commentators even watch the speech?

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The singer, scantily clad, paraded around a Williamsburg church

The deliberate targeting of certain believers by the surveillance state is beyond the pale