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Pirate Smile

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6. It is now very rare for there to be those huge Catholic families that used to be so common -

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 12:56 AM

Jan 2012

8 or 10 or 12 kids. Hmmm I wonder why. Everyone in the pews knows.

It is amazing how many institutions that used to be granted an enormous amount of credibility and loyalty blew it through scandals people used to think couldn't possibly happen - the Catholic Church, the U.S. Government (Iraq War), Wall Street...Penn State is the most recent example I can think of.

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