Like I said, maybe if the church hadn’t been complicit in a world wide ring of pedophiles, actively engaged in covering it up for decades, and instead had defrocked the monsters and turned them in I might have a shred of sympathy for the argument their making.
But they didn’t.
So I don’t.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
There is only one entity to blame for this and that is the church itself.
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Would you rather the Church drop the Sacrament of Confession altogether?
Or are you even a Catholic?