Saints fight to avoid disclosing emails in Catholic abuse crisis (MERGED)

Mr. Blue Sky said
When you’re talking to god on your lunch break, do me a favor, and say a prayer for my altar boy and classmate friends in grade school who were violently sexually offended, and consequently ****ed up for life... Because i can 100% assure you, Catholicism or whatever you’re consuming, did not, at all, ‘work for them.’

Bruh, i feel for your classmates and friends who were assaulted. Nothing will ever make that right on this side of eternity. That said, there is no religion that magically cures the "problem of evil". Religion isn't a drug where you can say "this one is xx% effective or works on yy% of the participants.

The only way a religion can be judged is by the results of those who completely live their faith...the fruit they produce in the environment and people around them...the impact and transformation they bring about. Concerning Catholicism, picking any of the millions of "Catholics" who don't know or live their faith to judge it's effectiveness isnt going to tell you anything. Chose instead those who devoutly lived the faith, those recognized as Saints. That's where you see "works greater than these" and a slew of supernatural and unexplained happenings that caused transformation and conversion in millions upon millions.

Evil touched you classmates; i'm sorry they havent been able to heal from that. I know people who were healed from those deep wounds, and they happen to be very Catholic; that's beside the point though. They let God heal that wound, take away what they carried for years, and allowed forgiveness into their hearts.

All of that has zero to do with assigning moral outrage to the Benson's or anyone in the Saints organization for having their PR personnel assist their friend in the best way to release the names of abusers. To deny help and expertise that they could easily give might have delayed the publication of that list further, so perhaps those seeking justice should actually thank Mrs Benson and the Saints for helping get that list out quicker than had they chose not to advise their friend.