The Reason to Stay

“Lord, to whom would we go?”
It is the reason I stay. I've read enough of the reports and the findings to feel beyond sad. I read it because it's important to know, even as it hurts.

If the Church were merely a worldly institution, a club with rules and
regulations, I’d be demanding all the money I’ve given, all the time, all the
work paid back with interest for the abject failure of so many