Don't worry, this is set in 1999, so it's Clinton who go eaten.
To be fair, the catholics never asked for their traditional garb to be appropriated by the KKK. It's kinda like with the swastika, it was originally an ancient symbol, that's used widely in Asia to this day. If people have a problem, educate them, and if they still have a problem, screw 'em.
We've seen a bit of Maxwell's past, being abandoned and raised in Anderson's oprhanage. Integra is currently a "captive" of Iscariot, and the mansion is being sieged by vampires. A bit of time passed between the episodes, Seras has had time to bond with the Wild Geese and Pip. The scene in the ending, with the shooting practice was in the manga too, though most of the interactons had to be cut short.
