If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.
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.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
I'd have to say, and I think that most Christians would hold the view, that there is such a thing as evil, and there are evil forces at work. You can articulate that by talking about Satan or the Devil; that's sound, Scriptural teaching.
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.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.