Secular Café: "the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people"

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"the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people" May 16th 2012, 10:07 So says the prize-winning author Hilary Mantel. (She won the Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall, which I would thoroughly recommend to anyone who hasn't read it.) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9...le-people.html Quote: She said of the paedophilia scandals: "The fact that it could happen, the extent of the denial, the cover-up, the hypocrisy, the cruelty... When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst the worst people I knew. "But in a cold-blooded way, as a writer I've had full value from Catholicism - I can say that. "It's a great training in doubleness - this looks like bread but it is actually a man's body, this looks like wine but it's actually blood. And that's very much a writer's way of thinking - she comes in and says good morning, but she means damn you to hell."

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