“I have news for you: the Church is not the evil institution you claim it is.”
I have news for you.
I have not made the claim that the Catholic church is an evil institution.
I have made the claim that many of her members take a position of blind defense that even her leaders do not hold (at least publicly).
That evil acts occur in an institution does not make the institution evil.
When people in leadership or rank and file members either deny the evil acts, turn a blind eye to evil acts, or try to deflect the evil to others; that institution has (at least temporarily) taken another step toward becoming an evil institution.
For some time period, I believe both the leadership and the rank and file of the Catholic church had taken this step in regard to priestly sex abuse.
Fortunately, the leadership has at least publicly begun the long hard road to accepting the church’s responsibility and culpability in this crisis.
Well meaning but misguided rank and file members will, most likely, eventually follow suit.
Will Wallace
Oh please. Who gives the falsely accused -- a larger number than you might imagine -- their good name back?