[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

I understand your sympathies.

However, I had different priests in differnt churches in different cities in the 70s an 80s who sounded like they were quoting from the Communist Manifesto instead of the bible. Most priests in the Catholic Church tend to lean toward socialist preachings.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Not all of them. My personal experience is that certain orders, like the recent history of the Jesuits, are more apt to be populated with socialists/communists. Joseph Fessio is one exception. The number of devout, faithful Priests that I've met in my life far outweigh the number of kooks, commies and criminals. I don't base my belief in the Constitution on its interpretation by the Clintons nor do I base my Catholicism on the interpretation of the deposit of faith by socialists/communists masquerading as Priests.

[tbird5]

No matter how bad a priest is, his behavior is not going to stop me from confession and communion. The catholic church has been here since Jesus started it and I am just one person in that long history. The catholic church has had horrible leaders in its history, yet it continues to stand. It is greater than me.

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Most priests in the Catholic Church tend to lean toward socialist preachings

And of the half-million or so Catholic priests worldwide, just how many have you heard preach?

[Antoninus]

Most priests in the Catholic Church tend to lean toward socialist preachings.

Do you have any idea how foolish that sounds? You experienced a few commie priests. They exist, no doubt about it. There are many commie bishops as well. But there are many more true bishops and priests who take Pope Pius XI said seriously:

"No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist." (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)

The communists have marked the Church as a major opponent of theirs and have been trying, with varying degrees of success, to infiltrate it from the very beginning. What you witnessed was one of the dioceses where they were/are successful. They have not been nearly as successful worldwide. It was recently revealed that the assassination attempt against John Paul II was engineered by the KGB. Now, if the Catholic Church was run by commies, why would the KGB want to take out the Pope?

You should have tried to learn something about the Faith of your Fathers before abandoning it.