Originally Posted by mordwyr

Actually, if you read the Catechism, you will see that the evil actions of some priests (in sexually abusing children or hoarding money or stealing property or whatever) is strictly against the teachings of the Church. So, actually, the Magisterium condemns such actions; it doesn't justify them.

Originally Posted by mordwyr

Every evil act committed in the name of the Church is a direct violation of the official doctrines and dogmas of the Church. Thus, the Magisterium is not corrupt; the people working in direct violation of the Church's own teachings are.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.