Why do I bring it up??? You talked about a teacher being fired for violating a contract. I asked if priests raping young boys was a violation of their contracts. I'm sure it was but they did not suffer the same fate. You cannot pick and choose the church's actions to defend or champion. You ask if in my mind the church is evil now? At times, and for centuries the church has done evil things. It has also done good things, many good things. It is not singularly evil or good. For people to blindly and support everything the church does and every decision it makes is how you end up with no examination, no investigations, little change and a population of Catholics who are becoming more and more reluctant to follow the church and attendance declines. The church is thankful for all the Catholic immigrants. Go to church in LA and notice how many parishioners are immigrants.