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“We are amazed,” Father Fitzgerald wrote to a bishop in 1957, “to find how often a man who would be behind bars if he were not a priest is entrusted with the cura animarum,” meaning, the care of souls.
Fucking disgusting. If Home Depot had one-tenth the rate of abuse as the Catholic Church, no one would bat an eye as the population rose up and burned every Home Depot to the ground.
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