The Church has been through much worse.
“The Church has been through much worse.”
Perhaps, but considering what was done and the current toxic social climate, it’s a potent one-two punch. For me, what was done, and the reaction by the hierarchy is horrific. Hard to draw new members with that going on.
No, not *much* worse.
Worse, maybe in a few isolated situations, but the homosexual problem in Roman Catholicism has been going on for over 1,000 years, and who knows how long the abuse of boys has been part of that.
And the cover up is beyond excuse or being excusable.
Roman Catholicism doesn’t deserve to survive this and they have forfeited the right to call themselves the body of Christ with the kind of sordid, corrupt, immoral history it has to show for itself.
The bigger tragedy is the spiritual damage done to people by priests all in the name of Christ, men who claim to have the power to send people to heaven or hell, and claim to represent Christ here on earth.