631: Chasten the Dragon Edition

In this week’s episode, Satan comes to Kansas, George Pell will get uncomfortably close to a child, one last time, and Marsh will tickle the dragon’s tale.
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Headlines:
OK superintendent sues FFRF for pointing out he’s breaking the law: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-ryan-walters-sues-atheists
Black Mass at Kansas state capitol goes how you expected: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/chaos-at-the-kansas-capitol-satanists
It's mold, not a miracle: The Catholic Church’s latest eucharistic blunder
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/its-mold-not-a-miracle-the-catholic
Labour council tries to ban Christian street preachers
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/29/rushmoor-council-injunction-christian-street-preachers-ban/ 
CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ark-covenant-located-cia-documents-psychic-b2723264.html
Paula White using position in White House Faith Office to promote grift… other than just Christianity, I mean: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/paula-whites-pay-to-pray-scam-trumps
Family attributes toddler’s recovery after near-drowning to Cardinal Pell’s intercession
https://thecatholicherald.com/family-attributes-toddlers-survival-after-near-drowning-to-cardinal-pell/