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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am struggling.  Hard.  I have struggled for years.

At the same time, being Catholic is part of my core identity.  I do not believe everything the church preaches (the biggies - birth control, gays, right to choose, etc), but the parts that are about building a relationship with god and building community I do strongly value.

At the same time, I am a person who believes in fixing what is wrong - not leaving and letting things get worse/more insular.  If I leave the church, where are the progressive voices for reform?

The level of institutional coverup and sheer volume in this most recent report is sickening.  Cardinal McCarrick.  Absolutely sickening.  Revolting.  
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But I can't just be protestant.  I'm not a protestant.  I am Catholic.

I genuinely do not know what to do.  Should I drop a note in the collection basket that says I am still here, but will not donate until the church implements significant reforms?

And also - abuse of this magnitude just not just start.  Reports are from the 60s, 70s, 80s to present day.  Did this level of coverup and abuse exist in the 1920s?  1880s?  has it always been this way? [/quote]

I think you raise good questions.  If you remain as a "progressive voice for reform," how do you show that?  Do you feel like you actually have a voice?  And yes, you could put a note in the basket and not donate, but are you somewhat showing compliance/agreement by being in the pews physically?  I don't know the answers - I'm struggling too.  [/quote]

I keep thinking of the AMAZING Catholic nuns that I know.  Women that taught me that are smart and strong and a powerful force for good in the world.  The ones who have been in DC at protests for immigrant children and run the foodbanks and shelters, who are nurses and teachers that help people all day every day.  What do they think? How do they reconcile their service with these reports?  How do they stay and be progressive voices for reform?  I don't know the answer...[/quote]

1. a lot of the nuns are stuck.  They've given their lives to the church and don't know how to live outside of it.

2.  A lot of nuns leave anyhow -- generally quietly.  They don't make a fuss about it and the church certainly doesn't advertise it.

3.  the number of women entering the convent is way down.[/quote]

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