[AdA$tra]

And therein lies the basis of the problem.

I am not defending (and cannot defend) the actions of individuals within the Church. I have been and will continue to defend the Church. You can remove every Archbishop, Bishop and Priest, guilty or not, and there will still be a Church.

[O6ret]

The RCC in the US is in extremis.

American Bishops and Cardinals think and act as if they are the church. With the utmost of disdain for the faithful they live like princes and protect themsleves and their friends and have refused to act as the leaders Christ has called them to be.

They and the American Catholic Church (as they have defined it by their actions) must be soundly and loudly condemned.