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[quote=Anonymous]Cardinal Bernard Law came to speak to my Confirmation class in the 80s in a suburb of Boston. Like another PP, I was raised in a Catholic family & was very devout. My parents were Eucharistic ministers etc. I have an uncle who was a priest. But Cardinal Law shook me right out of my faith on the actual day of my confirmation! Instead of talking about a million positive things he could have in the moments before we became adults affirming our chosen faith, he told us a story about a girl who'd been raped by her father and chose to keep the baby. Time & place, folks, time & place. I am not a Bill Maher type who thinks that religious people are stupid. I think the poster who believes the faith has endured for thousands of years & trusts that, not the people in power, is lucky. S/he still has his/her faith and his/her faith community. But Cardinal Law robbed me of my faith, so now I am an agnostic who doesn't know if there is a God, just that I *do* know that manipulative men who use their religious power to try to control young women -- the very same men who apparently covered up pedophilic rape of thousands of my neighbors -- are not part of an organization I need to be ANYWHERE near. Not to mention that our local church shunned my mother when my father divorced her. In her time of need. And that the first man I ever had sex with (who was a good Catholic boy who wanted to marry me) was dysfunctional because he'd been molested by an altar boy (who himself, we can guess, was abused by a priest?). Yeesh. OP, I think you will probably know in your heart of hearts if you can stay with the church or not. I wish I still had faith; I wish I still had a supportive community and the certainty I had as a child when I read scripture and hoped to be a holier person. But if you still believe in *God*, then your issue is probably just which church you feel most comfortable with. If you think you can make change, I do think that changing the church from within is likely a good idea.[/quote]

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