This is an example of why Fr. Martin Luther wrote the 95 items.
The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, that started the Reformation, a schism in the Catholic Church which profoundly changed Europe
About Luther.
He was a Catholic priest, first, no?
He could not remain quiet about certain evil practices (which I believe were manmade, and not definitive of the Church itself), but other men in the church, and certain secular kings and princes opposed him, rather than work with him.
So, with a LOT of years of back and forth and arguing, he left and started his own church.
If I could go back in time, I would tell him to stay, and fight the evil, rather than walk away.
There are many in the Catholic church TODAY who are fighting against the evil that exists in some men, but that doesn’t make good copy for the media. Something bad happened when Benedict 16 stepped down. I don’t know what, but perhaps it had to happen to prepare the final fight, who knows? But if so, for this reason alone, I can’t abandon my church.
The disunited Christianity since 1500 has hurt our Grand Western Civilization, but never more profoundly than in this modern age.
That makes me think it won’t be long...