Palmieri replies: “I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief helped to create campaign groups to press for a “revolution” in the Catholic Church, according to leaked

The F.B.I. declined to comment on the agency’s handling of the hack. “The F.B.I. takes very seriously any compromise of public and private sector systems,” it said in a statement, adding that agents “will continue to share information” to help “safeguard their systems against the actions of persistent cybercriminals.”

Rotondaro has the ordination of women, saying: “I have never seen any rational reason why a woman could not be a priest.” In the same article he says that “Gay comes from God”, and asks whether “any practicing Catholic under age 80” agrees with the Church’s teaching on contraception.

On Wednesday a Clinton campaign spokesman told us that Mr. Podesta cut his ties with Joule when he returned to the White House in 2014, “transferred the entirety of his to his adult children” and “recused himself from all matters pertaining to Joule for the duration of his time at the White House.”