Remind me again...why religious groups deserve tax-free status. Between the mega church crowd, scientology, and wheeler-dealer parsons....there’s something wrong with the cash-flow business.
This is the cost of life. When we mess up and when official people hurt folks, we must pay to help those terribly injured and we must pay to clean up the mess that we create when we try to cover up sin. It’s good use of our donations because it was necessary to do what we could to fix things.
When natural disasters happen or unnatural, we must pay to right things the best we can and not avoid it, yet we don’t wish to pay more than is necessary. That’s the cost of life. The Catholic Church is learning and will lead to better standards in the future for the UN and our country to adopt and this will be the great good that God brings out of sin, as He always does.
You have the judicial system you have today from what the Church learned via the Inquisition.
The folks that criticize the Church for abuses are right. The folks that hate the Church for man’s sin have their own degradations of the human person to be in denial about.
Using a prostitute, raping an adult or a child, watching porn, sex outside of marriage, sex without marriage - these are all the selfish self-worshiping sins that we spit in God’s eye with. It makes us feel good when we can point to some large organization or some freak down the street and say “BAD GUY” when indeed we are doing evil ourselves, worshiping our own lust for gratification as the god in our lives.