That's the real shame. I may be naive but I think that as large as these scandals are they represent a small percentage of the clergy. And I really feel for people of the Catholic faith because this has got to be tearing their souls apart.
My BFF at work is a minimally observant Catholic. And she is just heartsick. Her position has always been there was the Church made of of ordinary people and then the Hierarchy and the doctrine and you could love one and ignore the other. Now she's not so sure.
Hey if my Rabbi screws up, either (s)he gets fired or I join another shul. Been there, done that. So my faith is never put to the test by one person's actions. And no one is infallible. No one. Not in my world
But the problem with any large, powerful organization, is that its easy to lose site of the goal and become a self-protecting bureaucracy whose only goal is self-perpetuation. And the Catholic Church has done this in spades.
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Date: 2010-04-14 02:10 am (UTC)My BFF at work is a minimally observant Catholic. And she is just heartsick. Her position has always been there was the Church made of of ordinary people and then the Hierarchy and the doctrine and you could love one and ignore the other. Now she's not so sure.
Hey if my Rabbi screws up, either (s)he gets fired or I join another shul. Been there, done that. So my faith is never put to the test by one person's actions. And no one is infallible. No one. Not in my world
But the problem with any large, powerful organization, is that its easy to lose site of the goal and become a self-protecting bureaucracy whose only goal is self-perpetuation. And the Catholic Church has done this in spades.