You can not have a different past. You can not have a better past. You can only strive to make a better today and a better future.

The atrocities committed by the RC did not culminate or end with the Inquisition, they are still going on.
The Magdalene Laundries
The Child murders therein
The Irish "Boys homes" hot beds of murder and abuse
The systematic rape and abuse of nuns and orphans in Catholic care
Systematic child abuse and the protection of abusers
The house of the dying in India, where people with curable conditions were left to suffer and die, to uphold the will of god
The funding of homophobic lobbies for homophobic laws and regimes world wide
Selling Indulgences to dictators and drug Lords
The Vatican bank scandals
The turning of a blind eye to the holocaust
The Nazi Concordats
Industrial scale theft

And new horror come to light everyday.
If the RC was any other institution but a religious one everyone higher than the rank of priest would have been in Jail years ago, the wealth of the church seized and returned to it's actual owners and its historical sites re-designated as war crime locations.

Artistippus, I feel your outrage and anger. The fact that these atrocities were committed in the name of a religious organisation are repugnant.
My problem with this is that we're viewing these actions through the modern lens of society. These practices and worse were common. Between warring parties/cultures they were used to instill fear, or to stamp authority, to ensure that the rebel understood what defiance meant. So these were psycholgical tools, used to suppress the population. Think back to razing of cities by most of the ancient civilsations as an object lesson.
I deplore these historical actions, but the more that we use these as arguments to defeat modern day views, the less relevant our arguments become. Yes, we should and could show how they haven't moved forward since the Dark Ages - that is relevant. To vilify them, or anyone for accepted practice, back in the day, no matter how horrific? To me it smacks not only of hubris but also narrow mindeness.

You are more likely to see pigs fly than the Church opening its coffers for Planned Parenthood or any other charity.

So essentially you are talking reparations.
I have to admit I am a little torn on that.
On one hand I do think at least some order of help to worthy causes from the ones who did the wrong doings to people in need.

But the other part of me thinks about. Well, just how far do we go back. Do we Hit up the Moors for what they did to Spain, Italy, etc. for raping, murder etc. Or how about the Angles, Saxons, Norse, Romans etc. for doing the same.

By all means I do agree that the Catholic church has, and still does horrible shit. But there has to be a point where the past is the past, time to move on.
I'm all for hitting them up for what Church is still doing.
I think one way to start is to get rid of that whole tax exempt thing. They should pay taxes like every one else. and put that money to some good use.
JMHO.

Now do Islam.

The primary purpose of the Roman Catholic Church is the perpetuation of the Roman Catholic Church, regardless of all the other claims that it makes. What you suggest is simply not going to happen.

Yea, good luck with that.

Meanwhile, if you haven't already watched this, rather sure you will enjoy.

Their stance against abortion AND birth control has caused more suffering than all their other crimes combined. We should multiply that times ten. I wish their hell existed since this policy would sent all their faithful straight to it.

Your proposal to whom? Good luck with that!

I believe most religions have a dark history connected to their coming into power. I once heard someone claim that Buddhism was the only religion that didn't have a dark genocidal period or episode in its history (a claim I can't confirm or deny), but just recently, wasn't it Buddhists persecuting Rohingya Muslims in Miranmar driving from their homes to flee the country or face execution?

We can argue which religion is worse in terms of their murder and torture. Catholics certainly have no exemption from these atrocities. The Albigensian Crusade conducted primarily in the South of France at the beginni thing of the 13th century is estimated to have killed at least a million people. The purpise of the Crusade was to eliminate the Cathars which was a rival Christian sect growing in this region of Europe. In the final seige, the papal legate was asked how soldiers should distinguish between Cathars and Catholic Chtistians. The legate answered to kill them all and let God sort out his own.

Imo, the facts of these matters is that humans have treated one another atrociously for eons before religions played a big part. Tribal and clan wars have been conducted long before written histories and primitive people still engage in conflicts that result in the deaths of rival clans. The means of torture and causing pain to humans of rival cultures or rival ideas seems to have no limits. We can also find some possible parallels among animals species. Chimpanzees have been observed "going to war" to expand their territory. Members of rival communities are lucky to survive with their lives and cannibalism has been observed of murdered rivals. I doubt animals have found much use for torture since they most likely find a swift killing of rivals beneficial. Give them time and we are likely to see it develop.

I have long said the pope should stop telling people to avoid birth control, to distribute it free, and declare it a sin to have more than one child per parent.

How would you propose those actions be brought to reality?

No sarcasm intended. I'm just hoping for a viable plan.

I have seen references to this book "Malleus Maleficarum" several times. Each time it piqued my interest. So I just bought it. I think it will be a good read.

Protestant evangelicals are just as bad

because they are tangible things, I would like to start with all the art that was stolen from Jews by the Nazis and the Vatican, of which they were in cahoots. and if someone should say the Vatican is innocent and does not have what I and lots of other Jewish families have said, let them open up their vaults. while the nazis were only around for about 15 years the vatican has been harming Jewish lives for about 1700 years. I do not want to omit other groups who bore the wrath of the Catholic church but no group collectively suffered more at their hands just because of our religion.

Don't just stop at the Vatican/Catholic Church, go through the entire lot of Religions with a fine-toothed comb instead, after all they ARE ALL hiding secrets that they know would destroy them completely.

Has anyone seen anything here that persuaded them to become active in any cause suggested here? Is anything suggested here realistic enough to succeed?

Publish much of this discussion with the title Lamentations 2

As a secular Jew/atheist, the church is my most hated cult.

It has always been like this, these parasites feed off the poor...If you are a disbeliever then you are on the wrong team...if you believe in nothing then you are also on the wrong team...but the poor want better things and if they believe the hype...then they will get it...but only in heaven or hell or valhalla or wherever...but not in their lifetime...