Greg: I've been thinking about your post all morning, and am stunned and saddened. You seem like a good, decent, and speak the truth kinda guy. It can't possibly be your position that the widespread sexual abuse and the influence of the homosexuals within the Vatican should be defended, and the institutional Catholic church protected from all criticism?
I was the High Adventure Scoutmaster for a group of boy scouts going to the Boundary Waters in 2001. The other leader was an editor of the K.C. Star that made the decision to publish the story that Father Savage had died of HIV in 99'. He became the pariah of his parish for "attacking the church". Was he a "friend of the devil"?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/f...ds-of-the-devil Defending the indefensible makes the defender part of the problem, and we should be working to reform the church (of
every denomination), based on God's inerrant word
https://sites.google.com/site/anotherdaysjourneybackhome/reformation Christ proved His victory over sin, death and Satan when He got out of the grave on Resurrection Morning. He rose that we might walk in power, freedom and truth. It is God, His Son, and His word that we should be defending, not the sin of
any institutional church, false shepherd, or some "professional denominational executive".
And Protestant and Catholic alike need to move beyond (but learn from) our terrible actions of the past; one of which is relevant to this discussion
https://www.stmuhistorymedia.org/assassination-on-the-innocent-the-st-bartholomews-massacre/ 
