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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's just too much bad.  Sex abuse of kids, the mother and baby homes in Ireland, the residential schools in Canada.  So, so much abuse and death, most of the victims being children.  Completely insufficient efforts to rectify the horrors visited on people.[/quote]

First of all, alleged “sex abuse of kids” is hardly unique to the Catholic Church, which is and long has been in the forefront of efforts to combat such actions, even as abuse continues (and continues to be covered up) in other denominations, and in public facilities and anywhere else adults have power over others.

The other “abuse and death” allegations likewise are not unique to Catholicism. Many, many people who might have ended up far worse off than they did benefitted greatly from the care they received in Catholic facilities. But their stories don’t make money for trial lawyers or gain political traction for forces that want to silence the Church because they feel guilty doing things they know are wrong and project that onto the Church to try and feel better.

The Catholic Church is over 2,000 years old. It has billions of adherents. It is probably the leading charitable force in the world. Its history of heroic self-sacrifice by people dedicating their lives to others is unparalleled.

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