[Palladin]

You are right, CR. The problem goes back centuries. I've been brushing up on Renaissance history lately, and reading up on Pope Alexander VI and the whole evil fornicating Borgia clan. No wonder this chapter was left out of the books we used in the fifties to study church history! The current goings-on remind me very much of this era in the church....corruption all the way up to the top, and especially at the top. As it did in those days, it will take a huge reformation to change things,and it will take more than a hundred years.

[yendu bwam]

As it did in those days, it will take a huge reformation to change things,and it will take more than a hundred years.

This is the sad thing. My wife and I and our kids will probably not live to see this.

[CatoRenasci]

I'm waiting for a brave honest Priest to post a series of Theses to debate the proper response to the corruption in the Church. At least the Priest need not fear for his life, this time.

[AKA Elena]

I guess the schools I attended ... believed (in the fifties) in truth in History.

My Catholic girls high school and my Catholic grammar school scooped all the dirt on the Church and defined it as evil ... just as we learned the origin and tenets of ALL world religions.

We covered the evils of all periods of history including the good and the bad of the Crusades and the misguided evil of the Inquisition.

Maybe we just had stupendous history teachers.