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I agree with the writer also. I don't know about you folks but I'm ashamed of some of the things I see catholics do. In fact, I would be hard pressed to name a dozen who actually "walk the walk."

Remember the story of Mary Magdalene?

"Let the man who is without sin, cast the first stone."

I wish I'd write down things I've heard catholics say, here's a few I've heard off the top of my head.

"I think women should be priests"

Ever notice how empty the church is at confession time? "I ain't telling no man my sins"

"I don't care what they say, I'm using birth control pills anyway"

"I don't believe everything the catholic church teaches"

I see the writers point, I don't think he's trying to hide the scandal, I think he's trying to remind some of us what were doing.

Maybe Bishop Fulton Sheen said it right:

"Wild and gloomy times? Small wonder that people are shaken and confused! The signs are everywhere. The signs of our times point to a struggle between absolutes. We may expect the future to be a time of trials and catastrophes for two reasons: firstly, to stop disintegration...Revolution, disintegration, chaos must be reminders that our thinking has been wrong, our dreams have been unholy. The second reason why a crisis must come is in order to prevent a false identification of the Church and the World. Our Lord intended that His followers should be different in spirit from those who were not His followers....But, though this is the divine intent, it is unfortunately true that the line of demarcation is often blotted out. Mediocrity and compromise characterize the lives of many Christians...There is no longer the conflict which is supposed to characterize us. We are influencing the world less than the world is influencing us. Since the amalgamation of the Christian and pagan spirit has set in, the gold is married with an alloy, the entirety must be thrown into the furnace so that the dross may be burnt away."