And people wonder why the Catholic Church is dying.
Actually, I make that claim with about 30 seconds thought. Can anyone think of an older organization with continuous chain of authority to its founder? I could not. But, even if it is "one of the oldest continuous..." it is still one of the best, and maybe the best, entity in terms of survivability.
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I assume survival is a bare minimum threshold goal of every institution, so yeah, a pretty low bar. And yet, who has managed to succeed at that for 2000 years? The fact that the Church has succeeded in that goal for 2000 years is, at a minimum, a pretty damned impressive feat of mere humans. Some could consider it to be some evidence that the Church might have some divine guidance. 2000 years as a viable institution with a continuous chain of authority back to the founding individual is pretty damned unprecedented and amazing.
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In Canonical Trial being held in Rome. I had thought they were completely ignoring that issue. But agree with everyone else that he could have chosen his words better.
.....but you just can't have a priest make that point at this particular moment. It sounds too much like a justification.
Tone deaf. Just talk about the Syracuse game, Father, or parietals or why you can't park an RV in the lot overnight anymore.
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No? Absurd? Well, that's the best I can imagine. Personally, I feel that it's a compulsion that blinds the perp's empathetic capacity.
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If you think about the crimes too much, it is very difficult to be charitable.
I had a criminal law professor who commented on the death penalty one day: He said that it is easy to be against capital punishment...until you read the facts in a capital punishment case.
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He's an odd duck.