Well; I guess THIS explains the authoritive tone you display on the pages of FR.
I am pretty much an expert when it comes to recognizing those trying to excuse their own poor choices...they usually go out of their way trying to prove others wrong so that they can justify, in their own minds, the poor choices that they have made.
If you recall a couple of years ago, there were Hollywood types "threatening" to move out of the United States if so and so were elected president. They were going to make the poor decision to give up their citizenship and blame it on those who did something that they did not agree with....same syndrome!!
Over their 2,000++ year history, the Catholic church has a handful of bad leaders. There have been Catholic persons who have made some poor decisions but NEVER a decision which, in any way, jeopardized the truth of Christianity.We have politicians and public figures who constantly cause scandal to the church and why they aren't tossed out is a very good question but individual bad behavior does not condenm an entire institution.
There was a post a little while ago concerning something about the face of Christ....that was 1 individual in the world commenting on something that she says happened...that certainly is not Catholic dogma nor should Catholics be held accountable for it. There are about 1.3 billion Catholics in the world and some of them are weird and many do not represent their religion very well...that's just the way humans are...imperfect.