Quote Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy View Post
You're half right. When I see horrible systemic abuses of children, my reaction is to condemn.

However, you are being ridiculous if you think your reaction isn't knee-jerk. I cannot find a better term for it. You seem to want to defend the church no matter what its crimes and offer apologist's explanations. The simple solution? Don't be a part of such a corrupt church.
I don't know how many times I have to explain this, I am an Anglo-Catholic, not a Roman Catholic.

Your solution to a problem which is an old one, and already largely dealt with, was to call for the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church. That is a knee-jerk reaction, with no thought to the consequences.

The fact is that it would only take about 20 Cardinals, bishops and Chapter heads to cover something like this up, aside from the abusers themselves.

Now, many Catholics have called for reform, but if they shout too loudly they will follow Luthor and argueably do very little good. The Church has been resistant to change for about 500 years, because they believe that changes they make impact on the number of people going to heaven. Heterodoxy can be deemed heresy when it challenges the heirarchy directly, and the problem become still greater when you consider that the Cardinal you are attacking might become Pope.

The Catholic Church is an institution more than 1,700 years old, with more that 1 Billion members, it is the largest religion in the world, and the largest charity. To say, "It has to go" is naive, because it isn't going anywhere.

So, rather than throwing around unrealistic suggestions, why don't you try to think a little more calmly and reasonably.