Pope Francis urges decisive action against sex abuse

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17. Exactly. The WORDS are there.

But we've had WORDS handed down to us from on high before. And the problem persists. And the perpetrators are protected instead of the victims. And the conditions that allow for this kind of horror carry on as if there's just complete dismissal of the changing world the Church must recognize and minister unto - AS IT IS, and NOT as the Church would dictate it to be.

When Pope Francis starts recognizing the talent pool that constitutes at least 51% of the global population - that's still being flatly and uncompromisingly dismissed (women, that is) - THEN I'll believe we'll start to see meaningful change. The institution has to work with the world in which it finds itself. Now. Today. In THIS century. NOT back when, during Jesus's day, or Emperor Constantine's day, or any other day in the past. The world is changing. And the Catholic Church MUST change and grow with it if it expects to play a relevant role in THIS WORLD NOW.

You CANNOT fight or dispute evolution - even if you yourself don't believe in it. That does not make it go away or otherwise cease to exist. And if you continue to think that way, it will eventually be YOU that goes away or ceases to exist. Evolution itself will continue. Just ask the dinosaurs and the trilobites.