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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.
In these, no matter how great the meritocratic pretenses, the contest is always less completely open than it is in public institutions.