I've never had a problem with Catholics, I just despise the hierarchy.
I don't believe a word of it but I have friends who do. I've sent them over to the Church of England for decades. It has been a good fit for most of them, the same church but without Rome's nasty baggage. Oh, they find the hymns a little long winded and are jarred the first time they hear Blake's "Jerusalem" instead of those mournful Gregorian chants, but they soon get used to it.
Protestant friends who are burned out on megachurch dogmatism and political meddling get sent to the UCC or Unitarians.
It will be interesti, ng to watch what happens to that old boy's club called Vatican City. Will they start selling off some of their art and other bling to maintain the lifestyles of the princes of the church? Will they sputter on as common scolds with either a TV or online presence? Or will they just become a closed religious society, each one trying to out crazy the rest?
I honestly don't see the Italians letting go of them any time soon. Much of the rest of the world has, mostly because they can't stop meddling in things that are really none of their business
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