(April 19, 2025 at 2:10 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Why do people still trust these people?
It is somewhat explained in the article: Monsignor John Talesfore, a pastor at a San Mateo church and member of the IRB, said that “he comes from a mindset that he can never comprehend the claims made against the priests,” according to the minutes.
Then again some Catholics simply ignore the whole pedophilia thing, and some believe in a conspiracy theory that communists have infiltrated into the ranks of Catholic priests to rape kids and thus weaken the credibility of the Catholic Church.
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"
