To flip the famed line from “The Godfather Part III,” just when I think I might return to the Catholic Church, they pull me back out.
“They” are the church’s archbishops and bishops, in particular those in the United States, who not only advocate for the church’s teachings against gay rights, contraception and abortion, which is their right, but also repeatedly enforce them in ways that often seem un-Christian and downright wicked. All the while, the church’s pedophilia scandal persists into a third decade because of the clerics’ coverups.
What would Jesus do? Not act like these guys.
