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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

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Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:56 PM Apr 2020

My neighbor is a Deacon in the Anglican Rite [View all]

Formerly Anglican that recently became Catholic (the entire congregation), so while in full Communion with the Church, they are under a separate Bishop/diocesan leadership.

I am Facebook friends with him, and I regret that decision. Seeing his politics as well as priests and other clergy has literally destroyed my own faith.

What I once saw as inherently beautiful, but tainted by flawed men, has now changed. I now see the clergy and so many of the members so corrupt, I am finding it hard to see redemption.

I find all of this so disheartening.

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