What kind of Christian hides child abuse in the church? A phony one.
There is nothing phony about the Church itself, but it has had some bad leadership.
There is no doubting that the leadership hid the pedo practices of some of it’s Priests. There is little doubt that they are still doing it in my mind.
It is and was wrong. I may be called a bad Catholic by many for my views, but IMO the problem was that the leadership was promoted from the rank and file, and that many in the leadership were as guilty as the lower ranking pedophiles and therefore hid them.
Homosexuality and the hidden pedophiles have done great damage to the Church, the credibility of every priest is called into question. No one can go to mass without wondering if their Priest has a problem, and many have stopped going to Mass.
Add to that the fact that probably 90% of Catholics in child bearing age are using Birth Control, many are having abortions or making excuses for those who have them and many now support active homosexuals and the Church leadership instead of tending to the problems we already have are pushing illegals down our throats and the church is in deep trouble.
Seattle’s new mayor Ed Murray is openly gay, married to another man, and attends services at Seattle’s St. James Cathedral (Catholic) and (I think) receives communion, with no one apparently questioning any of it. The gay mafia is deeply entrenched in the church.
There was a connection between the growing use of birth control and homosexuality. The pedophilia scandal is in some ways a red herring. Even today the Church seems to hesitate to remind us that this was a homosexual problem involving a relaxed discipline in the seminaries. It was already a problem before the Council but it got worse afterwards. Our whole society is becoming “homosexualized,” meaning that differences between men and women, boy and girls, young and old are treated as wholly matters of “choice.” to be medically erased.