Why I became a Catholic in spite of everything I heard

[rug]

2. There is nothing unique about the present state of the Church.

Trump is a pimple in the pantheon of brutes. The Church is not expelling whole peoples as it did five centuries ago.

I wouldn't leave the Church because of trump. I wouldn't change my tie because of trump.

You know why you stayed. If you stayed despite all that people in the Church have done over centuries, there is nothing worse it's doing now. You know the litany of abuses is a small part of the Church. The good it's done, and the human needs it fills are still there.

Leaving is not always the hardest path. More often staying, integrity intact, and speaking your mind and doing what your integrity compels, is often harder. Phil left. Dan stayed. Both were good men, inside or outside the Church.

Happy New Year.