What has the roman Catholic church ever done for us?

What did the Romans Ever Do For Us? 

By Romans I mean the Roman Catholic Church.

The following list was taken, in part, from a debate that featured Christopher Hitchens.
So here is what the RCC has done for and to us.

The persecution of Jews and the denigration of women. Year: 0 and ongoing.
Antisemitism comes to us through the Vatican because they think the Jews killed Christ.
Women are painted as little more than chattel in the Bible. That view still lives today. Many RCC members believe that the husband runs the family and women should do as they are told.

The Pedaling of Indulgences as a ticket to heaven.
For many years the church sold indulgences… essentially a Get Out Of Jail Free for sins yet to be committed.

The sacking of Constantinople. Year: 1204.

The Crusades. Year: 1095-1291.

 The Spanish Inquisition. Year: 1478-1834.
The burning alive of Giodarno Bruno, Jan Hus and hundreds of others.
 
The Forced Coercion to Christianity. Ongoing
The practice of the church is to supply aid, but only if you convert to their religion. This happened mostly in Africa and South America and it is still happening. Some African countries have made Christianity a part of the law, which includes harsh punishments for gay people, including death.

Death by Disease. Ongoing.
Millions in Africa are dead due to AIDS because the RCC would not allow people to use condoms. Pope Francise once said that it was OK to wear a condom… but only between married couples to and only to stop the spread of STDs. The Pope could save thousands of lives just by endorsing the use of condoms.

Kidnapping for Jesus: 1850s
A wealthy Jewish family hired a RC nanny for their child. The child became ill, and the nanny, fearing for the soul of the child, whisked him off to an RC church and had him baptized. A few years later, Pope Pius IX got wind of this and could not stand the thought of a now RC child  being raised by Jews. So he had him kidnapped, and imprisoned him in the Vatican until he was of age. There was a huge backlash from countries and organizations around the world.

The African slave trade.
The RCC had no problems with the slave trade. God is quite fond of slavery in the Bible. The Atlantic slave trade lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries. I was not abolished in the USA until 1865 when the Civil War ended. 

The arrest of Galileo. Year 1992
The church apologized for that just a few years ago.

 Legalized torture under the counter reformation. Year 1545-1648.

Deals with Dictators in WWII. Year 1939-1945.
Mussolini became Italy’s absolute ruler because the RCC backed him up. He offered huge tax breaks for the then broke RCC in Italy. In return, the Pope backed Mussolini.

The RCC made a deal with Franco if Spain.

And most notably, they entered into the Reich Concordat with Hitler and became even more wealthy. They tacitly approved of the Holocaust where six million Jews lost their lives.

The Rat Lines. 1945
After WWII ended, the church smuggled hundreds of notorious NAZI criminals to Argentina. Dr. Mengele, the angel of death lived out his life there. Adolf Eichmann was captured by the Israelis in 1960. tried and put to death.

The Rape and Torture of Children in every Country that had a RCC Presence.
 The RCC has a huge pedophile problem. Check out the movie Spotlight. Their practice was to move priests who were indulging in this barbarity and were about to be investigated, to other parishes… without telling the new parish what they were getting. For the really bad actors, the church recalls them to the Vatican where they are protected by diplomatic immunity. Look up the Australian Cardinal Pell, to name just one. He recently died inside the Vatican without ever paying for his despicable crimes.
When children are subject to molestation by a priest, the Church offers more pastoral care to make it right… the very same care that got them molested in the first place.

Hitler’s Birthday Year 1939-1945. 
The RCC celebrated the birth of Hitler up to his death by suicide (a sin, as I recall).

Limbo. Year 1,000 to Present
If you do not get baptized, you do not get to go to heaven. But what happens if a perfectly innocent baby dies before he can be baptized? They are sent to Limbo… a barbaric cruelty for the true believers who must now stop believing that they will all be re-united after death.

The Laundering of Mob Money. The Year of Three Popes 1978: Mid 1900s.
The RCC was mobbed up. Pope John Paul was a reformer. He wanted to clean up the Vatican. He died 33 days after becoming Pope. There is good reason to suppose he was murdered.

Pope Ratzinger and  Defending the Church.
Ratzinger would become Pope Benedict the 16th 2005, but before that, he was responsible for creating the play book when scandals arose. And there were a lot of scandals. His priority was to defend the church no matter what. This mean fighting law suites and shuffling pervert priests to new parishes where they could re-offend. If they were really heinous, they were recalled to the Vatican to live a cushy life, and where they could enjoy diplomatic immunity. Cover up was the order of the day. 
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Catholic Schools   
In BC, Canada, RCC nuns literally tried to beat the Indian religion out of native children and replace it with Christianity. Many died and were buried in unmarked graves. That took place in my life time and in my back yard. These practices are still going on in Africa.