Take Mother Teresa in Calcutta. She didn't care about money or power — she just served the poorest of the poor, day after day, for decades. That's not corruption. That's the Catholic faith in action.
You say the Church was corrupt even in medieval times. I won't deny there were bad popes and greedy bishops. But the medieval Church also built universities, preserved classical knowledge, and created hospitals. The same institution gave us both the Crusades and the first universities. It's a mixed bag, not a simple story of corruption.
And about the abuse scandals — those are real, and they're horrific. I won't minimize that. But the Church today is actually one of the few institutions doing real accountability work. They've changed policies, removed abusers, and put safeguards in place. That's more than you can say for a lot of secular organizations.
The point is, you can't judge 2,000 years of faith by its worst moments. That'd be like judging all of humanity by our worst crimes.
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