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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being Catholic are your beliefs about God. Priests abusing others is not a part of our faith. Why not stay and be a part of the solution?[/quote] I'm not the OP, but I have family members who were sexually abused by priests. My grandfather beat my grandmother close to death, and her priest told her she would go to hell if she left him because marriage is a sacrament. Abuse and terrible advice are certainly not exclusive to the Catholic Church, but they are propped up by the authoritarian and hierarchical structure of the Church. I've not seen the level of self-examination, acknowledgement, and apology that I would need to come back to the Church. I feel like I would be doing something immoral to raise my own child within an institution that inflicted trauma on our family for generations.[/quote]
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