For as long as man has had religion, religion has had hypocrites. The Catholic Church is no exception — it is, like all churches and all religions, full of sinners. In fact, that is its boast: No sin is too great, no Pharisee too far gone to be saved.
The first pope was a man who fled from the Passion and death of his Lord, betraying Jesus three times rather than suffer beside him. One of the Church's first great saints was a man who spent much of his life zealously persecuting and killing the earliest Christians.
Both men repented. Both were martyred for their faith. Andrew Cuomo, their brother in baptism, has yet to find his road to Damascus.
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