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Why do young people leave the Church?

Maybe because we haven’t been as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves. That is the default. Of course, our hierarchs as a group have not been as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves. Some of them, prostrating themselves before the political and sexual idols of the age, have been as wise as pigeons and as innocent as snakes. [1]