I take it that you just hate the Catholic Church a feel an urgent need to bash it.
There is always going to be some evil in any orgainization. But it would be better to be raised up by nuns in Ireland than by social workers in the U.S.
And what does “international” have to do with the fact that there are many more cases of sexual abuse in the public schools, and that that abuse is getting worse, whereas in the Church things have gotten far better since the rotten 70s.
Exactly! It gets tiresome when someone seems to make it their mission in life to continually attack the Catholic church. I do relize that many Christian churches fill their members full of nonsense about what we do in the church but many grow up and finally find out that that is exactly what it was utter nonsense.I am not excusing anything. Most of this happened in the 1950’s and 1960’s while I was a child in that church. I never saw any of that and no one I knew who grew up in the church had anything like that happen.
Well, I believe many of the people who attend the Catholic church are decent people.
I believe the vast majority of priests are fine people, but the hierarchy above them is grotesquely corrupt.
Note all the bishops and others in the highest places in the Cathoilc church that have sought to hide illegal, immoral, sick abuses for decades.
The Catholic Caucus thread Alex quotes in post #23 and #38, and the disgusting legal stance taken by the Catholic church, as mentioned in post #40 (from this article) should help you understand that it isn’t necessarily the local people, but the leaders that are truly the problem.
But if those nuns beat you, and some apparently did, what would that do to your view of God? Probably destroy it. I have a friend who was in a Catholic orphanage as a child and the nuns were terrible to her. She remembers having to crawl across gravel on her hands and knees. That kind of thing destroys you. She never really got over it. They’re supposed to have a higher standard than social workers.