1. There's an interesting dichotomy between how the general public is reacting to the Pennsylvania report on child sex abuse in the Catholic church and how conservative Catholics are reacting.
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4. At the beginning of the century, Ruse bought into all the standard apologetic lines: "I believed the bishops had to protect the Church, that the lawyers were probably right to offer compensation to victims and require them to keep quiet so as not to scandalize the faithful."
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5. Ruse was one of the die-hard defenders of the Church even in the wake of the Boston Globe's revelations. "I thought the media was ginning up what was a scandal, to be sure, but one that was small, localized, and now blessedly over."
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6. But now something has broken and Ruse can't buy it anymore. And he's not alone. There's a real shift among conservative Catholics. They're getting to where the rest of us were 20, 30, 40 years ago.
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7. I'd like to see some reporting on why this shift is happening. This could just be the straw that breaks the camel's back. But also, having a reformist Pope has made these Catholics more critical of hierarchy, perhaps creating path for this shift
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8. Of course not all conservative Catholics are shifting. Among the die hards are Bill Donahue (a.k.a. Catholic League). He's angry that others are jumping ship.https://twitter.com/CatholicLeague/status/1030445791691923456 …
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I made an awful mistake and read the comments. Good Lord.
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WTF even is a "homosexualist"
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This article shows how the Christian Right so easily embraces Trump. Even now, the idea that child rapists should be prosecuted as criminals is foreign to this guy, because the perps are fellow conservative Christians. Publicize them, sure. Prosecute? That's for poor black folks.
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Yeah, but read the comments. It's all the fault of that liberal pope and the evil gays. The peanut gallery isn't changing its tune at all.
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Don't read the comments on that article. Just don't.
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