[mockingbyrd]

Alex, dude, chill. Mad Dawg's comment is clearly talking about those people who run stuff at CHURCH, not here on FR. It is not in any way, shape or form an insult towards you, or any other poster here at FR. It was a funny comment, with some truth to it.

In my experience, Catholics by-and-large don't have a problem with having immoral priests.

I know this is not your experience here on FR. If it is your experience outside this forum, then you do have very limited contact with Catholics. I strongly recommend that you become a frequent reader of such publications as, This Rock, Crisis, National Catholic Register and Catholic World Report. I think that you would take great comfort in knowing how stongly Catholics feel about the need for all of us to live moral lives, most especially those whose failures cause so much suffering, like our priests. Then I would ask you to join us in praying for all those who serve the Lord in a leadership position, especially pastors and priests. You know that Satan constantly attacking them.

[1000 silverlings]

So he is contemptuous of the 'little people" who work at the church, and this is one of the allures of the Catholic Church? Very strange, because, They LOVE people who run stuff.

They bow to them and kiss their rings and robes. They quote them (church fathers) endlessly as if they were Scripture themselves. They kneel to them and ask for their forgiveness. They believe those in power are one giant step above themselves between heaven and earth.

No, they ADORE folks who run stuff.