We had two men in the family (husband's side) picked off by the pervs in the scouts when they were children. The Scout management was protecting a nationwide homo perv ring from exposure like the Catholic church. They kept it up until the lawsuits began and the homo pedos have been squealing ever since.
I used to be Catholic and sometimes went to Catholic schools as our family moved around, but your portrayal of the church staff and organization as moral, was not my experience. I had a few very holy adults influence me and for that I am forever grateful. I managed to unload all the others who worked in the opposite direction on my ethics, mind, heart and faith.
If it comforts you, I have avoided all church organizations. There are none that are better than your church. But I am as close as I can be to Christ. The Catholics introduced me to Him and my faith in Him and relationship with Him has never wavered. I understand that may not match your Catholic doctrines.
I have a couple of sisters who go to Catholic churches still. I am not anti-Catholic and I don't want the church to disappear. I do want the evil to fall but that is not the church. I am anti-perv and triple that when done in the name of Jesus. Raping and molesting young men and boys is a serious sin to be protested but doing it behind a curtain of God is horrific.
Just because I condemn the Catholic power structure for feeding homo perv. operations, that does not mean I don't go after all the other pedo organizations and actors, too. I wrote a bunch of letters recently to the Scout Board members, urging them not to give into the money pressure of the pedos. Love you, NYer. Sara
For example, I would urge you to first honestly ask yourself if Jesus founded a Church, just like he solemnly promised he would.
Then honestly ask yourself if Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist within that Church He founded, as a mechanism where human beings could be united in a special way with the Sacred Presence of Our Lord Himself, just as He spoke about and promised in a number of places in the Gospels, and as confirmed in the writings of St. Paul.
If those two things are true, then honestly ask yourself why you would let some bad people keep you away from those special things the Lord provided.
While it is just a tiny minority of all the Priests in the Church who have ever been truthfully found to have engaged in that perverted sexual abuse (and they should be removed and receive human justice), there are certainly a lot more sinners than that inside that Church that Jesus founded. In fact, every single person, in every single seat, in every single pew, in every single Church in the world, as well as every single Priest, Bishop, Cardinal, Pope, and all of the other people walking the earth today who are not involved in any Church, are all sinners.
In fact, that is who Jesus came for. Jesus said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (See Matthew 9:11-13, Mark 2:16-18, Luke 5:30-32.)
Would you have let the extraordinarily evil actions of a small minority of the original Apostles of Jesus (namely, Judas Iscariot) keep you away from Jesus Himself, just because you did not want to be near Judas?
We can all do our best to eliminate sin, and should do our very best to screen out sinful clergy and other Church leaders, but sin will not be completely eradicated till the end of time, and each of us will then be judged by God and receive God's perfect justice (including every pervert).
Please don't decide to go to Church or to stay away from Church just because of the goodness or evil of anyone there - go for Jesus, because He set up His Church and His Sacred Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist for you, and He wants you there.
(I have to go now, but I truly hope you will reconsider your decisions.)
God bless you.