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In reply to the discussion: Do you know why Catholics put money in the collection plate at Sunday mass? [View all]wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)hell in every organisation.
Did you stop watching football because of Jerry Sandusky? Did you leave the Boy Scouts because of their policy on gay scout leaders?
My grandparents were deeply religious Catholics and while my parents and their siblings left the church, they always spoke with great respect about the parish priests who were active in the labor movement getting their heads bashed in right next to the union organisers, putting together soup kitchens to help striking workers, doing little tasks around the house or just sitting and talking with all the old widows in the neighbourhood.
The person you're responding to wasn't talking about people who are "concerned" about the church. They're talking about people who say that everyday Catholics are complicit in the larger organisation's crimes every time they drop a dollar in the collection plate. Which is, as you say, unfair, unjustified & WAY WAY over the top, right?