As a practicing Catholic, I acknowledge the damage the Church has done in the past. However we aren't living in the past. We live in the present.
I have never heard from the pulpit that God brings bad things upon us. One teacher in my Catholic high (who was a priest) did teach that God did punish Adam and Eve. He gave them, as he gives us, freedom of choice. How we choose our actions is our decisions. Not God's decision, not the Devil's. Ours.
Just as much as anyone else here, I hate those who push their religion on others or who twist their beliefs, bringing people away from religion, especially when they are most likely to be in need.