(June 18, 2015 at 2:52 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Anyone who really faced up to the crimes of the Catholic Church could never remain a Catholic.
While you might think that is true, some people(especially the old ones) have their identities so entwined with Catholicism that nothing the church could do would cause them to stop identifying as a Catholic. For some families, Catholicism is as much a culture passed down from generation to generation as it is a religion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell