@vicfroh@mastodon.social As I've said to my, very Catholic, parents many a time. If as individual "good" Catholics, you have to defend your faith against generalisations supported by looking at individual "bad" Catholics, then it's a Catholic problem, and saying that "no real Catholic..." isn't a defense, it's a confession. My father didn't really agree until he was about 20 minutes into a story about how the woman who he saw begging always refused "real" help and only wanted cash. My siblings and I stopped him to ask how he knew that what she needed more than she did. We offered examples of multiple situations were cash would be the "real" help. None had occurred to him because they were outside his world view. It took him being called out very specifically for him to realize he wasn't "helping the poor", he was acting in exactly the way he condemned in "bad" Catholics by putting himself in a position of authority over this woman because he thought he knew better how she should live her life.