[skellmeyer]

"Mr. Wiggles" is shore sweet on Saint Francis of Assisi

Well, bless his little heart! That's the kind of snake who would sit right down with them fishes and listen real quiet to the Gospel, even if every one of the townspeople had kicked old Frank in the head for speakin' the truth to 'em. He don't sound like one of them snakes what would sneak up on a bird while Francis is talking and go filch their eggs.

I allu's had to watch them snakes around the chickens, 'cause they was allu's suckin' eggs.

[investigateworld]

LOL !!!
When I referred to 'religion' I'm thinking of 'form' vs. substance. Christ spoke of those who tithe "even a tenth of the herbs in their garden", yet not able to understand what HE was preaching.BTW, I consider JP II to be a godly and holy man. I sure caused a few eye brows to shoot up when I mentioned my admiration of him in more than a few pubs in Ireland that cater to Prot's.
AS to the pedophile problem, the statistics are that the RCC church is about par for non-RCC churches. As the Church is perceived to have unlimited wealth, well of course the lawyers are going to beat the drum. (I was in Law Enforcement for twenty years as a "general assignment" detective, so I know a little about that problem)
Yes, serious errors were made, but man has always had problems.