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If one is Catholic it is essential to differentiate between the Church, which is holy, and the group of men who run the Church, which is not.
The failings of the Catholic Church in matters of finance and institutional morality stem from a combination of duplicity and incompetence -- and my guess is that incompetence is far and away the more important.

The most vigorous force for renewal in the Church today is the plaintiff's bar. It seems to me, at times, that the Spirit manifests … [More]