Patheos blog
Nov. 2, 2019
By Captain Cassidy
As if one huge, long-running, top-level scandal wasn’t enough for Catholics, they’ve now got a new one to contend with. And it’s exposed at the worst time possible for their leaders. Join me today for a look at Catholicism’s newer scandal, and how hardline Catholics are reacting to the news.
The news broke recently: the Vatican has yet another scandal on its hands.
This time, it didn’t involve the rape of underage children or the murder of vulnerable infants and women, so that’s good, I suppose. Those scandals went on for many centuries before finally poking up from a sea of submerged fear.
The inevitable results of giving unlimited power and no ethical barriers to entry to any group. (NSFW for, well, everything.)
Instead, this new scandal involves the discovery of troubling financial corruption at the highest levels of Catholicism.
I suspect most people–especially non-Catholics–know by now that this group regularly commits enormous financial shenanigans. The news constantly confirms this opinion. (See endnote for a truly hilarious example.)
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