You look at history the Catholic church isn't well-positioned on anything. Meh, so much for eternal damnation ?

NObody is "positioned" to tell a woman what to do with her body, ever

oh golly what a surprise.

Is there anything any church could do that would surprise anyone?

hmmmm......Imagine that.

Just when you think there is a new low, the church goes lower. It doesn't get much more hypocritical than that.

While the main focus has been on what the priests have been doing there is the other issue of women/girls in the Catholic church. SMH
It really is one horror after another with this religious group. Other religious groups too, I would suspect.

"This week Pope Francis admitted there has been clerical abuse of nuns, including sexual slavery. The BBC reports, "He said the Church was attempting to address the problem but said it was 'still going on.'""

I guess the pope deserves some credit for coming clean (as much as he did), but holy shit! I know there are a lot of good people in the various religious communities but it's hard to escape the fact that they're mostly at least complicit in a massive cover-up.