On the attacks on the Catholic Church

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148. When I was a homeless youth,

And I broke into the back door of a midwestern catholic church to have a place to sleep and some food from the fridge. I was, "the other". The banished youth for not aligning with many a religious moral prerogative. It remains my sole experience inside any white-folks church. The leftover casserole and pie was good, thank you. Thank you for the tithes that made a meal for a starving runaway possible. I might have eaten lead and/or been imprisoned if you'd known.
Likely no one was the wiser.
As it was, that helped make it possible for me to hitchhike west to San Francisco, be taken care of by a pedophile, grow up, go to college and have a career.
Had it been up to many of the christians, I'd have starved in the desert or been returned to bruising abuse of the homophobic "christians" I ran away from.
"nor can you expect Catholics from advanced economies to be able to impose a whole slew of values (consistent with first world concerns) on the developing world."
Really? The invading padre's and their enforcers didn't already do this with flying lead? Didn't take the lead in destroying the herd of buffalo to replace it all with mechanization, pollution, enforce the almighty reign of the dollar and god? Whom did it enrich?