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In these, no matter how great the meritocratic pretenses, the contest is always less completely open than it is in public institutions.
In Stigmata , for instance, an unquiet dead priest is desperate to notify the world of a suppressed "fifth gospel," which, when revealed, will expose the greed and false pretenses of the Roman Catholic church.