[count-your-change]

Lest we forget what occasioned the reformation: It was pervasive and well entrenched moral rot of the Catholic clergy. Once in a while a bishop or Pope would proclaim a war on clerical vice and issue prohibitions and penalties which were universally and easily ignored.

However well the Reformation reformed it was a response to centuries of corruption within the Catholic hierarchy. But what of today?

“The history of the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent (1545-1563)
record the rampant corruption of bishops and priests. It is not hyperbole to
speculate that sexually and financially the Church is equally corrupt today.”

A. W. Richard Sipe, quoted in the book, Sin Against the Innocents,
published by PRAEGER

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A. W. Richard Sipe is interesting. He was a Benedictine monk and Catholic priest for 18 years. He's now been married for 35 years and has one son. So his six books offer a unique perspective on the historic and pervasive problem of sexually abusive priests.

From Amazon about Sipe's book, "Sex, Priests and Power"..."Sipe offers the first quantatative and qualatative look at the cancer on the American Latin Rite Catholic Church. He offers convincing evidence that 50% of the Latin Rite Priests and Bishops are sexually active, despite the Church's teaching that any and all sexual activity outside of marriage is mortally sinful. "