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Duration: 09:14
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1431
Broadcast Date: Apr. 1, 2011

In the brave new world of social media, says communication professor Stephen O'Leary, church authorities from pastors to the heads of denominations "no longer have the kind of control they once did."

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