As I may have mentioned before, my eyes were opened to the appalling attitudes of the Catholic Church in two instances -
One was visiting my mother-in-law's tiny cottage where she grew up as one of seven children, and told how she walked two miles each way to school with no shoes on, and ate turnips from the field on the way home - and the seeing the obscenity of the massive parochial house in the town which was home to four priests, who still demanded collection from these families every Sunday.
The second time was visiting the Vatican - anyone who has been there sees a fraction of the obscene wealth the church has collected and hoarded over centuries.
All in the name of God, of course.