This is a real indictment of the American bishops since it appears they've forgotten basic honesty and replaced it with an arrogant "It's for their own good, they just can't understand" attitude.

Nothing against their causes, but collecting cash in the collection plate under false pretenses exposes the underlying beneficiaries as unworthy on their face.

Locally, the Church has paid the appeal bond for a convicted child molester who is (note - present tense) a priest. They've found out that it's harder to regain trust than it would have been to do the right thing in the first place.

Donations and attendance are tumbling. Even devout Catholics are not buying into the guilt the heirarchy i...

This is a real indictment of the American bishops since it appears they've forgotten basic honesty and replaced it with an arrogant "It's for their own good, they just can't understand" attitude.

Nothing against their causes, but collecting cash in the collection plate under false pretenses exposes the underlying beneficiaries as unworthy on their face.

Locally, the Church has paid the appeal bond for a convicted child molester who is (note - present tense) a priest. They've found out that it's harder to regain trust than it would have been to do the right thing in the first place.

Donations and attendance are tumbling. Even devout Catholics are not buying into the guilt the heirarchy is pushing about not supporting the Church. It appears the Church is leaving its' people and not vice versa.

Evangelical Churches siphoned off billions..

Joyce Meyer's $23,0000 toilet...

Priest sent to prison -- $900,000 theft from Catholic High School

Catholic Church pleads poverty to avoid compensating abused children


Former Catholic Sister says Even Mother Teresa is a Fraud

For nine years Susan Shields worked as a devoted Catholic Sister, working for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. When fin...

Evangelical Churches siphoned off billions..

Joyce Meyer's $23,0000 toilet...

Priest sent to prison -- $900,000 theft from Catholic High School

Catholic Church pleads poverty to avoid compensating abused children


Former Catholic Sister says Even Mother Teresa is a Fraud

For nine years Susan Shields worked as a devoted Catholic Sister, working for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. When finally becoming fed-up in 1989, she left Mother Teresa in disgust over the misuse of millions in charitable donations that never got to their destination -- the poor and afflicted.
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Yeah. Let's boycott the bastards and give to our "local" church!