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“Because white men failed to practice the sexual abstinence that native peoples used to control their birth rates, the (native) women became pregnant much more often than their sisters.” Leading to complications, suffering, premature aging, exposure to unfamiliar diseases and alcohol.

“How twisted and sad that the Church, founded on the truths and mysteries of a little boy born in circumstances so awkward that only faith in his miraculous conception saved him from bastardy, has devised so many mechanisms to cripple the attempts of the Virgin Mary’s daughters to claim their just deserts.”

“Married or not, priests with family obligations consumed resources that would otherwise accumulate in the Church’s coffers - unlike celibates, they spent money to support wives, mistresses and children, and bequeathed property to them rather than to the Church.”