At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.

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Therapy, Mr Green?

The Church has always been run by at least some immoral men at the top. The difference is, no matter how perverse they were in private, in public they mostly upheld the Faith.

Two things that cannot both be true:
1. The teachings of the Catholic Church, as represented in the Catechism, are completely binding and authoritative.
2. The teaching of the Catholic Church on capital punishment, as represented in the Catechism, was always wrong. Until now.