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But the ~~Roman Catholic Church~~ public school system has sheltered the worst types of criminals - child molesters - and as a former RC public school student I find that horrific! It is exactly the kind of hierarchical excess that turned me away from the ~~church~~ public schools in the first place.

Funny how easy it is to fill in the blanks, there, with something different.

I am not excusing the pedophiles, just saying they are everywhere, destroying much, and are often not better dealt with in a secular setting either.

The attack on the Pope and the Church comes on the heels of the refusal by the Vatican (ongoing) to allow homosexual 'marriage', the refusal to condone abortion, to ordain known gay clergy, etc.

For nearly 2000 years, the Church has stood in the way of such except when corrupted by those doing Satan's work, and those are to be found everywhere, in every denomination, and are even more common where the guiding hand of Christ is not present.

The sad comment is that today they are so prevalent outside the Church they freely attack it.

Where, but in this fight, do we see so many align themselves with the servants of Satan to attack such a bastion of faith as the Church, using the evil acts of a few to attack the many?

Other sects of Christianity are giving ground, ordaining "celibate" homosexuals, "marrying" homosexuals, walking away from what has been Christian doctrine for millennia to suck up to the sorts of people who are attacking the Catholic Church, proclaiming the mote in the Vatican's eye while they have a beam in their own.

Anyone who points fingers at the Catholic Church over the pedophilia issue, is likely pointing fingers back at themselves.

Any organization that is composed of humans is going to have human foibles and human errors and bad human judgment in it. Nobody is in a position to be able to throw stones.

Thanks for making my point clearer than I could.

I’m not attacking the Church. And my kid attended a RC Parochial school where he received the same environmental and social justice crapola that the public schools taught which is why I took him out after 6th grade and home schooled. The school administrators were laymen.

What I am criticizing is a hierarchical-bound Church manned by MEN who do not relate well to their congregates and, in fact, far too often see themselves as totally seperate. The Church, which I still respect mightily, has largely done great things and been the force forming the morals and ethics throughout the history of Western Civilization. But MEN are not equals of God and we should not foolishly believe they represent Him when they would protect one of themselves and risk the safety of innocent children.