However, the others were set up by religious congregations such as the Christian Brothers and the Dominicans.

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Survivors and representative groups, and the religious congregations, co-operated with the departmental committee.

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Aside from Scherer, other leading Latin American possibilities include Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, 69, head of the Vatican's office for Eastern rite churches, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, 65, who has earned praise as head of the Vatican's office for religious congregations.

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James Manship, co-chairman of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut, a coalition of religious groups.

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Luhrmann says in her preface that she told both the Chicago and the Palo Alto congregations that she was an anthropologist writing a book about religious belief.

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