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Originally Posted by Mathgod
They rode the wave of bigotry and hatred for as long as they could, and have only recently changed course because they realize that they have to, in order to avoid fizzling away and becoming irrelevant.
A sincere about-face? Doubful.
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The news in the OP is not a change in dogma or structure. In fact, nothing has changed. So it's not even a insincere about-face. It's a nothing statement.
Every pope would have said you are supposed to love sinners. Most popes were just less humanistic than this one, which I concede is a step in the right direction.
However, they need to do a massive purge of the molesters and of the protectors of the molesters before I take them seriously on any subject. Even if you are left with 100 good people, you do it and rebuild. You can stream your mass services right from Rome to people around the world. Until this problem is abolished, they have no credibility to talk about other subjects like abortion, LGBT, social justice or environmentalism.