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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I simply do not understand how people can't see that one major function of the Catholic Church was/is as an organized and coordinated pedophile ring. It is simple indisputable.

Thousands and thousands and thousands of priests abused children on every continent and country. MANY more participated in the the coverup at every level.

My mother left the Catholic Church in her 20s, and I'm so glad we weren't brought up in it. It's sickening how anyone can give the church a penny.[/quote]

Well, the reason they can’t “see that” is that it isn’t true. You quote alleged thousands of malefactors (without citation and not specifying a timeframe) in an organization currently estimated to have more than a BILLION members. That’s just right now. It doesn’t take account of the untold number of Catholics who have been born, lived and died over the Church’s 2000 year history.

The Roman Church is far from alone in having made employment errors and acted for the good of the organization when it should have been concerned with victims. As has been detailed to death in this and innumerable other threads, every human institution, and even the human part of divine institutions, is bound to have some level of corruption. Don’t the Protestants say people are subject to “absolute depravity?”

In the vast majority of instances, people who promote a vision of the Church focused on the wrongful acts of a few care far less about victims than they do about consoling themselves over some doctrinal difference they have with the Church, typically without any real understanding of the doctrine in question.

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EMPLOYMENT ERRORS???? Thank you for confirming one of my biggest reasons for leaving.[/quote]

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