I don’t think you want to get into atrocities or abuses committed by those whom the church, Catholic or otherwise, has approved for ministry.
I find it a tragedy that people don’t know the Bible and aren’t able to protect themselves from the error that comes at them either from within the church or from without.
No, I don’t have a problem with the fact that people have freedom of speech and freedom of religion. It was the absence of those things during the Dark Ages that led to many abuses through the “church.” However, the Protestant Restoration, and the dissemination of the Bible and the Judeo Christian ethic throughout the West brought much relief to Europe. It even led to some reformation within the Catholic Church in an effort to stop the hemorrhaging of people to Protestantism.
A Catholic priest has to study tehology, from 6-12 years. I have never met such educated men. You can go to any Catholic church in the world and the mass will be the same, perhaps in different languages. In five years, the Old and New testament is read in it's entirety in catholic Masses.
I'm glad you feel theologically superior, but I have a problem with priests who selectively pick biblical passages to suit their personal interests. Such as using the Old Testament to claim that God unleashed His wrath on the Jewsbecause they sacrificed with incense and had icons, as opposed the fact that they were worshipping the God's of the Sumerian's and the Egyptians. God demand that we worship Him, he doesn't condemn us for having icons. That's silly.