When the Catholic Church, in the USA, faced the biggest problem in her history (the clergy abuse scandal), the reaction and change was dramatic. In fact, due to changes made after the scandal, the Church in the USA has now become one of the most effective organizations in the country, in terms of protecting children and vulnerable adults. Still, one of the main reasons it got so bad was a failure of our leaders to do the right thing in the first place. We are seeing some of the same issues in the face of the Coronavirus.

The Catholic Church has its own set of urban legends. When asking a few friends some of their ideas, we ended up compiling a list that has several dozen urban legends and myths. Thus, this will only be part I of our series on Catholic urban legends. Here are the two.