After my last column someone wrote: “Love your articles about the awful Catholic Church, but isn’t it a bit like shooting fish in a barrel?’
He’s right. With the exception of most (but not all) practicing Catholics, people love to hate The Church. It’s not just the mind-boggling atrocities of the Crusades and the Inquisition; not simply the pedophile priests; not even the excesses of adulterous and murderous popes.
It’s also that The Church has proclaimed herself THE one holy representative of God, then dressed her priests up in a wardrobe that would embarrass Lady Gaga. Furthermore, they have amassed more money than God doing these awful things. Then they hypocritically told their adherents: ‘Do as I say not as I do.’
