It's time to let go of any negative feelings about the Church. The Church was founded upon the Rock, the Salvation, Jesus Christ. Peter and the apostles laid the foundation for the Church. They were humans trying to spread the Word.
I am all for spreading the word of God; I am not for all the humans who interjected their individual needs for power and control who have over centuries corrupted the Church.
The Church is perfect in its original form; however, it, like us, is in need of God's mercy and forgiveness for all the moments in which its leaders have turned from God's will for It.
So, today, I release any pains I have held toward the perfect Church, and I forgive the hierarchy who, in their flawed humanity, made decisions that tainted the hearts of all us recovering Catholics, now just catholic.
Why "catholics" in lower case? Because we are all catholic.
Many Christians sometimes use the term "catholic" (often with a lower-case letter "c") to refer not to the Roman Catholic Church alone but more broadly, to the Christian Church and all believers in Jesus Christ across the world and across the ages, regardless of denominational affiliation.
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