Dear Ma: I'm Lutheran Now - Catholic Church Scandals Did Me in

By Mike Farragher
Irish Central
January 15, 2019

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"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."

I guess this quote from my new homeboy Martin Luther is as good a place as any to break the news to my parents that I’ve left the Roman Catholic Church, at the ripe old age of 52, in favor of a faith often nicknamed “Catholic lite.”

Even the most fervent patron of the Holy See must give the devil his due: he has built a basilica rivaling St. Peter’s on church property in recent months. Cardinals and bishops are falling faster than Halloween candy prices in November after almost weekly revelations that they presided over the practice of pedophile priests raping countless children in their care for decades.

It has become impossible to see the church I grew up in through the lenses of rage and disgust that I’ve been wearing into His house lately..