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[aleatorius]

By the time of that session in the spring of 1987, Mr. Obama — himself not Catholic — was already well known in Chicago’s black Catholic circles. He had arrived two years earlier to fill an organizing position paid for by a church grant, and had spent his first months here surrounded by Catholic pastors and congregations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/us/the-catholic-roots-of-obamas-activism.html