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In reply to the discussion: Catholic Church enslaved 30,000 Irish women as forced unpaid labor in Magdalene Laundries until 1996 [View all]Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)They know about all the corruption going on in their ranks and quite frankly I believe they encourage it.
The Pedophile priest here in new England? Oh yes, they take that so seriously that Cardinal Law, a person directly responsible for covering up and allowing these crimes to continue, now sits in a place of high honor in Rome as one of 4 Archbishops. People I love, people ion my family will forever bear the scars of what he has done, yet he sits like a king in their little gold-filled city. Disgusting.
Since it's very beginning the Vatican has been ripe with corruption, lies, scandal, murder and war. When not directly involved they are busy looking the other way.
I come from a family of Catholics, whom I love. They are good people, but they misguided people, continuing to financially support a very corrupt system.
I would like to see at the very least, American Catholics rise up against the Vatican and break free from what I would classify as an organized crime syndicate going back hundreds and hundreds of years.