Australia's first Catholic saint, Mary Mackillop, was excommunicated by Vatican because she discovered children were being abused by priests.
In 1871, she was excommunicated from Catholic Church and turned out onto the street with no money and nowhere to go.
In 1871, she was excommunicated from Catholic Church and turned out onto the street with no money and nowhere to go.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
