"Of all the American princes of the Church, outside of that ridiculous popinjay Raymond Burke, Dolan is among the most insufferable. He plays the jocular, backslapping Irishman while his rap sheet on burying the ongoing sexual-abuse scandal is one of t...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TobeCarey Oh, my. I feel I need eye bleach now.

[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy It’s a declining demographic, and so, they’re attracting the extremists. We see this in the political spectrum too, as you know.

[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy I’m so upset about how Catholicism has wrecked their brand. Truly.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MoiraEve Yes. The pastoral leadership of the US bishops for decades now couldn't have been more bankrupt, and the ugly revelations about the abuse situaton and its cover-up in the global church, handled so disgracefully from the very top levels of pastoral leadership on down, have, as you say, totally wrecked the Catholic brand.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MoiraEve Absolutely. The exodus of Catholics from the Catholic church in the US is the most pronounced of all exoduses of churgoers in the US.