No Stockholm syndrome here. I was educated exclusively by nuns and priests for 12 years. I spent one year in a secular college and ten more at Notre Dame. And I have many personal examples of grievous sins committed by many nuns and priests and bishops and Popes, not to mention institutional sins I have witnessed and sometimes publicly denounced. Tons of gossip to tell. But I had a strong, tough, five-foot tall Irish mother. I witnessed her bury both of her dead husbands, as well as publicly denounce parts of Catholic ideology, professional religious, pastors, politicians, even policemen. I suppose that helps me to assess the sexual and bureaucratic sins of today's Church. One should never allow his/ her identity to be swallowed up by an organization, be it the Democratic party, the Catholic church, the corporation, nor the country. The church that will celebrate my funeral mass will be the Church of Matthew's "Sermon on the Mount", the one that prompted the heroic lives of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Mother Teresa, Franz Jägerstätter, Joseph Bernardin, Philip and Daniel Berrigan, Thomas Gumbleton, Joan Chittister--corrupt human beings, each with sins, faults and failings. I am very angry at the members of the church's hierarchy not only for their hypocrisy, their sexual sins and cover-ups, but also for their failure to institutionally denounce certain actions and inactions of governments and popes and presidents. But I'm also mad at the Democratic party and America and the Florida penal system, and my Catholic parish. Nevertheless, when I'm gone from this world, I hope to be counted among those who are remembered at masses, especially on All Souls and even All Saints Day. I don't believe in hagiography, even Henry David Thoreau's. BTW: I was mad at C. Ratzinger before he became Benedict XVI.