Oddbean new post about login | logout Why is the Catholic Church like this..? “The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic clergy. The settlement, which experts said was the highest single payout by a diocese, brings Los Angeles’s cumulative total in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/archidiocese-los-angeles-abuse-settlement
The regime wants to destroy the Catholic Church, further investigation is needed to see how true are those things.
The simplest explanation is the usually the right one. Simple: These guys aren't Christians, they're just wolves looking to eat the sheep.
Control tactic to keep others in submission. Another example below 👇 Augustinian Catholic order paid $2 million settlement over rape accusations against priest but left his name off sex abuser list The Catholic religious order won’t explain why the Rev. Richard McGrath, who was accused of sex abuse and having child pornography on his phone, isn’t on the group’s newly posted public listing. By Robert Herguth Jun 4, 2024, 6:30am EDT
Any institutions that have access to children (churches, public schools, Boy Scouts, etc) will draw predators. Like any human organization, the Church is full of sinners, and likely, all will not be saved, but if you take salvation and God’s revelation seriously, the Church still is what it says it is despite these scandalizers.