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Does the Catholic Church do more harm than good?

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Does the Catholic Church do more harm than good?

A more general question is Does religion do more harm than good?. It will perhaps be most interesting to focus on features specific to Catholic Church. Properly dealing with the question requires some aggregation of pros and cons, but to help itemization, arguments are allowed to state a single item of harm or a single item of good and leave it to the reader to do the aggregation.

Search terms: Is the Catholic church a force for good.

The Catholic Church does more harm than goodEdit

Arguments forEdit

  •   Argument for It does the general harm of religion: see Does religion do more harm than good?
  •   Argument for Its opposition to condoms and other forms of contraception prevent limiting of spread of AIDS and prevent limitation of population growth that threatens ecosystems. Population growth in industrial countries creates load on resources (e.g. fossil fuels) for intensive agriculture and population growth in less industrial countries create load on resources (e.g. deforestation) for extensive agriculture.
  •   Argument for Its involvement with 20th-century far-right dictatorships is problematic.
  •   Argument for The church executed people for heresy, that is, for teachings at odds with the official Catholic doctrine. An example is the execution of Giordano Bruno. See W:List of people burned as heretics.

Arguments againstEdit

  •   Argument against It does the general good of religion: see Does religion do more harm than good?
  •   Argument against The Catholic Church is one of the largest charitable organizations in the world, running hospitals, orphanages, etc.

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