Thousands of sex crimes by priests over at least several decades, compounded by institutional cover-ups, in Pennsylvania and around the world. Centuries of financial and other corruption. A culture of secrecy that facilitates and hides criminal activity.
This is the Catholic Church's record, and it has no viable plan to change its criminal culture. It's time to break up the Church.
Splitting the Catholic Church into several or many separate churches is the best way to sharply reduce church sex crime, corruption, and cover-ups. The separate churches would compete with each other for members and clergy in the same way that non-Catholic churches do. The competition would produce more transparency and better practices that would minimize church crime and corruption. Some of the separate Catholic churches would be scandal-free; others would not. But as with non-Catholic churches, both worshippers and clergy would vote with their feet, move to better-run churches, and thereby impose competitive discipline, financial and otherwise, on poorly run churches.
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