In the last several years we - sociey - put the Catholic church on trial

[question everything]

(and perhaps other denominations, too).

It is time to put the Catholic schools all boys on trial too. What kind of administration this Georgetown Prep school, a Jesuit one, had that teens were routinely partying, getting drunk and assaulting girls without any teacher being aware of or, worse, doing something about it? Clearly, based on Kavanguh "what happened there stays there" has referred to ongoing activities.

And what kind of school let such offensive remarks get into yearbooks?

No doubt, the pupils there have been sons of rich and powerful men, wealthy donors. But is this what the schools stood, still stands for?

Would be nice, though I do not hold my breath, if any influential moral alumni or trustees would take a public stand.

[MountCleaners]

1. As someone who grew up Catholic, I agree.

I had 12 years of Catholic schooling, I have often defended Catholics against bias and bigotry. But, as with the sex abuse scandals, the Church has to answer for its product, Brett Kavanaugh.

I was depressed today and spent all day in bed watching my recording of the hearings. Depressed because it brought back my own memories of high school. It's not just the boys' schools, it's their institutional bias against their female students and their favoring of male students. They praise the boys' character without having the faintest idea about how some of these boys behave. As long as they keep up appearances and do their service jobs and go to church, they're saints. They get the message that they can do whatever they want.

The reason is money. They can't afford scandal, they need to promote and praise the little monsters they raise because they will someday make donations and make the school look good. They need the parents' donations, too.

The church has to deal with its sexism. A sexism so poisonous that many Catholics will support putting a probable rapist on the Supreme Court just because he is against abortion. So much for being "pro life". Of course they never were. That's why I left the Church. The hypocrisy was too much to stomach. People guilty of the sin of racism and homophobia denouncing abortion. I'm sure I'm far from the only churchgoer they lost because of their hypocrisy. It's sickening to go on Facebook and see self-righteous Republican "pillars of the community" praise their Catholic alma mater, a school where the principal physically abused me and no one believed it. It all comes down to greed. They bond over their precious schools and use those bonds to get ahead in life.

Give me a break with Kavanaugh claiming he is solely responsible for his "achievements". Your purpose in being at that school is to bring dollars and prestige back to your alma mater.

[malaise]

2. Patriarchy is one of the linchpins of many religious institutions

It is what they promote and celebrate. Dominion over all thing includes females.
They teach that females came from the male rib -when you figure out that anti-science fuckery, get back to me.

[question everything]

3. The reality, of course, is that god, after creating everything, then realized that the work was not

done until he added a woman. With Eve, creation became complete.