However sinful/criminal their acts, those perverts ARE Catholics...but their actions aren’t endorsed by any Church authority. The Protestants have bishops espousing positions clearly counter to Christianity (in fact, they try to paint it AS Christianity); they now even have female and/or openly homosexual BISHOPS.
And the Catholic church has openly homosexual priests and the mantra is, once a priest, always a priest and what he does in his personal life doesn’t effect his ability to perform sacraments as long as his *intent* is pure.
Doncha just HATE it when leaders are exposed this way??
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.