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<blockquote data-quote="Belgrano" data-source="post: 1276348" data-attributes="member: 1171"><p>Seems like there's a semantic problem here.</p><p></p><p>In practice, there's a difference between the Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church.</p><p></p><p>The Catholic Church is ultimately a worldly institution, it is of the world.</p><p></p><p>Its moral authority is no better and no worse than that of the people running it.</p><p></p><p>If good, honest and God-fearing Catholic Christians want the Church to be more good, honest and God-fearing than it is right now, well, then they need to get involved and take action.</p><p></p><p>The Church as it is right now has been infiltrated and partly subverted by people who are not good, honest and God-fearing. How could this happen? </p><p>Well, because the enemy at least cared enough to get involved and take action, while many others who could have easily opposed them chose not to, for whatever reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Belgrano, post: 1276348, member: 1171"] Seems like there's a semantic problem here. In practice, there's a difference between the Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is ultimately a worldly institution, it is of the world. Its moral authority is no better and no worse than that of the people running it. If good, honest and God-fearing Catholic Christians want the Church to be more good, honest and God-fearing than it is right now, well, then they need to get involved and take action. The Church as it is right now has been infiltrated and partly subverted by people who are not good, honest and God-fearing. How could this happen? Well, because the enemy at least cared enough to get involved and take action, while many others who could have easily opposed them chose not to, for whatever reason. [/QUOTE]
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