There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.