If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
There is a lot wrong with the church.
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.
I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
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