I've never really understood how so many nice people can belong to such a ridiculous organization.

The Catholic Church is an organization that continues to exist in almost every country in the world despite it's role in the sexual abuse of minors and its openly declared support for other human rights violations. I don't really understand how any organization that contributes to the sexual abuse of minors can take issue with the morality of legal sexual practices between consenting adults. I think it is a failure of humanity that people actually take their positions seriously.

Furthermore, the office of the pope has not been held by a person without ties to Fascism and Nazism in Germany in the post-war period. In some instances those ties can be taken as errors of youth an Jon Paul II was a fairly liberal pope who was responsible for modernizing the church in a lot of ways and likely not someone one would identify as a Fascist, this is still a disturbing trend. It becomes increasingly clear the church is associated with power and influence. Lacking the successful conversions of the missionary period, they have aggressively rallied against Birth Control of any form in the hopes of rising birthrates among the Catholic populace, hoping to increase influence by controlling a larger portion of the vote in democratic nations. It's disguised in language about "god's will" but I have yet to hear a good answer to why an all-powerful, all-knowing being is defeated by a thin layer of plastic.