As long as a thread is not a "Catholic Caucus," I will continue to react in horror to the evil repeatedly allowed in this "church" by its highest leadership.
“I will continue to react in horror to the evil repeatedly allowed in this “church” by its highest leadership.”
It is very difficult to persuade a person that the sources he trusts have been lying to him. Not only does a person have an emotional investment in the beliefs he has developed on the basis of information received from those sources, it is difficult for most people to face the facts when they have been wrong.
Perhaps more importantly, no one wants to be the sort of person who could be fooled like that. Everyone wants to think, “If they were lying to me all those years, I would have picked up on it. After all, I’m not stupid.”
It’s like Mel Blanc said, “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be; Daffy Duck is who we are afraid we are.”
Still, you can fool all the people some of the time, which means that even the smartest people do get fooled.
Which is all my way of saying, with absolutely no hope whatsoever that my remarks will be taken as they are intended, that you have been told many lies about the Catholic Church.