[marshmallow]

How did the Catholic Church allow him to become an Archbishop in the first place? On a much earlier thread, I was told that Weakland was in "denial of key points of Catholic teaching." How then did he make it through the bishop selection process? Who was so impressed as to later promote him to archbishop? Who was his overseer? Who gives such an ungodly man a place of authority and trust in a church, and why?

The mystery of iniquity, Alex, the mystery of iniquity..........

"Ungodly men" are to be found within the Church in any historical era. The very first Apostles contained a Judas in their midst and their latter day successors are likewise afflicted. It will be so until the end.

It makes no difference if it's 4%, 66% or 99%. The Church will always endure. That's the Catholic Church, I mean. No amount of sin, scandal or human wretchedness will ever negate its apostolic origins nor the promises Jesus made to it. On the contrary, the Church's perseverance in spite of it being wounded so often and so grievously from within is proof of its Divine origin.

It's a mistake to believe that if sin and scandal rises to some arbitrary level, the Church's mission is voided and we're free to abandon it.

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(”A country which kills its own children has no future” -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

What about when a church/priests rapes it’s own children? The church has no future or the children?