[fml]

--That all pales in comparison to the sex scandals that the church finds itself embroiled in. --

The church is much more than the sex scandals - but you know that, you just don't care.

[stanz]

Just trying to be logical here. What do you think the church's priorities should be? Straightening out the legal mess or stifling members of the flock?

[JBCiejka]

I was raised Catholic, but have not been to church in years. My children also went to a Catholic school back then, which I loved. But after the scandal in RI in the early 80's and nothing was done, I became quite wary of the church. Nothing was being done, and a priest that married us also had made complaints to the bishop and nothing was done. My kids left the school, and after 20 years, finally something came out. I am appalled that the church can be so unforgiving to people who divorce, or have them excommunicated because they work for Planned parenthood, and yet continue to protect their priests from sexual abuse to boys, and the priest in Mass that had two children with a woman and denied it until the DNA came back. Talk about hypocrites.