Okay. There's an organization the leader of which enables those who deny real instances of quite dreadful, even satanic abuse.
From top to bottom, despite well-known and amply demonstrated findings in psychology, clergy minimize family dysfunction.
Child predators seek out children from dysfunctional families because they're easy prey and thry’re far less likely to tell their parents what's going on.
In other words, although more from negligence than active intent, clergy are assuring a supply of Catholic children for the predators. Even though qualified lay people try to tell clergy and seminaries what's going on, they persist in their denial.
This goes on despite frequent and seemingly, SEEMINGLY, heartfelt apologies from various officials ... which seem to come mostly after secular authorities have presented an undeniable account of abuse and its concealment.
If I give to support my parish, knowing that the diocese has a “tax” on donations, an argument could be made that I am proximately complicit in this abusive system.
I really love Japan after only one visit, but the more I reflect on my last visit and anticipate my next, the more sure I am that Japan needs Jesus. There's a certain aura of aimlessness.
I plant to be in 長崎, Nagasaki for the commemoration of Paul Miki and Companions this February.
Thomas Sowell says that up until the late 50s black families were proportionately more married and committed than white families. Involved and competent fathers teach sons to control themselves and daughters to value themselves. The US needs another Great Awakening.
I think it is conceivable that someone with the kind of disorder that gender dysphoria is could still attempt a chaste life of prayer as a hermit. (I do not see how involvement with a local theatre is compatible.)
There are online resources for Catholic and other hermits. But there's an important distinction between disorders and sins. It's not a sin to be homosexually inclined; it's a disorder. It's homosexual ACTS which are the sin. I think gender dysphoria is similar.