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Originally Posted by
nonpareil
They provided a lot of education and nursing /medical services for Catholics at a time when no one else was inclined to do so.
Sure , they made many mistakes, often shrugged off or covered up those mistakes and failed to move with the times, but many of their mistakes were repeated or worse things were done around the world by plenty of non- Catholics.
Is is easy to look back from the ivory tower of the present , to past times when things were very different and people thought very differently.