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In reply to the discussion: Why Would a Millennial Become a Priest or a Nun? [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)36. In defense of this bullshit institution ....
as neither hrmjustin or myself are Catholic ...
The Catholic Church does many positive things as well. They are the largest private charitable organization in the world. I worked for them 20 years ago in a program that resettled Vietnamese refugees. Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services, who was working in Darfur when nobody was paying attention to it. If you want, I can dump a lot of information on you about it, but I suspect you really don't want to know what is going on.
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