Don't leave the true church because of the sin of men!

QUESTION?

I’m seriously considering leaving the faith. I am disgusted and ashamed of our the Bishops and his sexual predators and some of them have been closet sexual predators themselves. How can the Church be true when it produces such hypocrisy?

ANSWER!

Please don’t leave the Church. You are misplacing the blame. If a Bishop, Priest, religious or layman fails to live up to the standards he is preaching, the blame lies with him and not with the message he preaches. His actions say much about himself but not about the teachings of Christ. Jesus certainly practiced what he preached, but if someone else preaches Jesus message exactly the same but does not practice it perfectly, it is not logical to conclude that the message of Jesus must be flawed. By way of analogy, if it were proven that Albert Einstein was a child molester, that would not disprove the theory of relativity. A system should not be judged by its worst adherents but by its best, those who actually live up to its standards. Judge the Catholic Church by its saints, not by its hypocrites. As Arnold Lunn stated, “The Church is not only the nursery of the saints, but a hospital for sinners.”  If being hurt by the Church causes you to lose your faith in God, than your faith was in people and not in God.

The devil wants to separate you from the Holy Eucharist which is JESUS HIMSELF. That would be committing spiritual suicide and Satan would celebrate. Get involved - go to http://thebishopsknew.com/ and see what you can do.