"Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?"

Alternet has an article by Greta Christina titled, "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?"

Here's a little taste -- please follow link to the original


AlterNet / By Greta Christina

Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?
If your softball league or your children's school did what the Catholic Church is doing, you'd quit in outrage. So why haven't you?
May 15, 2010 |

For any Catholics who might be reading this, I have a question for you:

Why are you still Catholic?

Presumably, I don't have to tell you about the rash of child-rape scandals in the Catholic Church. I don't have to tell you about the cover-ups, the shielding of child rapists in the priesthood from law enforcement, the deliberate shuttling of child-raping priests from town to town to protect them from exposure -- thus enabling them to continue raping children. I don't have to tell you about the Church using remote, impoverished villages as a dumping ground for priests who raped children. I don't have to tell you that this wasn't a few isolated incidents: it was a widespread, institutional practice, authorized by high-level Church officials. Including Cardinal Ratzinger -- now Pope Benedict XVI -- who, among other actions taken to protect child-raping priests, delayed the dismissal of a child rapist in the priesthood... for the "good of the universal Church."..............................