To: RANGERAIRBORNE
This kind of nonsense (as well as what is starting to look like institutionalized child molestation) is why I no longer attend Catholic church. I was raised in the Church (Irish Catholic), but I am not impressed with what it has become.
I understand your ire, sir, but keep in mind that the Church is an institution made up of fallible men. The institution itself is not wicked, but many of those who make it up have lost their desire for sanctity and have embraced the temptations of this world.
The solution to the problem is not to abandon the Church to the termites, but hack out all the dead wood and fumigate the place. Now if only there were a Bishop Terminex out there somewhere...
To: Antoninus
You are correct- but I am beginning to think better of Martin Luther (that humorless zealot)- the Church in his time was even more corrupt than it is now. That said, I have not met a Priest who impressed me as a moral leader in at least the past 10 or 15 years. I HAVE met quite a few who looked and acted like refugees from a National Gay Day Festival. I also have deep suspicions about the Bishops who have failed to prosecute Priests who they KNEW were molesting children. What would a THOROUGH housecleaning turn up, I wonder?
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