why is catholicism seen in a bad light nowadays

i'm a roman catholic and believe in my faith, all the priest i've ever known have been noble good priests who genuinly cared about people...just because there has been a few perverted priests in times gone by, doesn't blacken the whole catholic faith, if some people think it does, it would be a ridiculous assertion.

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graphite · 61-69, M

Of course, most of these pedophile priests are already dead or are very old, but we're supposed to believe nothing at all has changed. There was a priest whose name showed up in one of these lawsuits a few months ago not far from me; died in 1983. Yes, dead for 40 years. Was he guilty? Who knows? He certainly can't mount a defense anymore.