What happens to your faith when, as a Catholic journalist covering the Vatican, you have a “front-row view into the nastiness of the Church”? I honestly can’t remember. Over time you come to accept, not the wrongs and injustices you’re reporting, but the fact of a Church made up of tempted, sinning people – including your self; and that, while your faith is lived in and through an institution with at times sinful structures, it is not faith in that institution, but in the God you encounter there, in the company of others like yourself.

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