—— Well, when an organization “progresses” from selling indulgences to molesting children... there’s probably not going to be much moderation in the volume of criticism ——
You forgot to mention Mother Theresa, St. Thomas Aquinas, etc., ad infinitum. I’m sure you want to provide fair criticism.
I’m glad to hear that there are no sinners in your church. Unfortunately, there are some in ours. In fact, we all are.
Catholics love to use that straw man: “I guess you’re so holy and pure in your church.”
No one is. What puts the Roman Catholic Church into a category all their own is how they handled the sinners once the travesty was discovered.
Other churches didn’t relocate their bishops and cardinals (or the equivalent) out of the reach of US law enforcement, as the RCC did. Other churches haven’t given fat pay-off checks to get child molesters to just leave their churches and sweep the issue under the rug.
And, to put not too fine a point on it, other churches don’t encourage widespread flouting of our immigration laws as the RCC does, a policy which brings in even more rapists and murderers into our midst.