RE: Damned Catholics
February 24, 2019 at 4:49 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2019 at 4:52 am by fredd bear.)
(February 24, 2019 at 12:17 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Dark Secrets of the Vatican (2018) - PBS Documentary about how twisted the catholic church is by revealing some of the deepest and darkest secrets of the Vatican.
Why are people so surprised?
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest organisations on the planet. A huge corporation with offices all over the world.
Imo the Church has been corrupt probably as early the second century, when it developed a hierarchy. Certainly no later than the fourth century under the emperor Theodosius ,when christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire. . At that time the Christians began officially persecuting (killing) anyone who disagreed with its dogmatic beliefs. The practice of burning dissidents alive continued until the seventeenth century, only ending when the Church lost that power
This corruption probably reached its most egregious and most publicly visible level during the Renaissance, under the Borgia and Medici popes. All that has really changed since then is that the Church has learned to be more discreet and more secretive.
The current scandals, which seem to riddle the Church have been hidden and denied as policy . Many non Catholics seem not yet have understood that this secrecy, and denial has occurred because the Church has always taught that Canon law trumps civil law. I'm not convinced that position has changed at all. For centuries, no member of the clergy could be tried by civil authorities for any crime whatsoever. They could only be tried and punished by an ecclesiastical court. IE by theChurch.