It is very complex. I am only Catholic on my father's side...my mother was Baptist,...converted but I don't think you can renounce Baptistism all that well...what she did was take the worst of the Catholic side, combine with worst of Baptist side...so I can not speak with an unconfused mind.

But I will say that this is a complex matter, that involves how Catholic children were reared..it is not just a matter of child abusers being drawn to the religious side..it is that they were created by a church obsessed with suppressing normal sexual activity and creating an atmosphere, even in my day, where any male/female activity was so awful, and so punishable in hell, that nothing else was particularly worse or even mentioned. For a priest, a woman was probably so unthinkable that a child was not worse..it was all maximally bad...so unhealthy stuff was the residual from blocking out any hope of normal stuff. I actually don't remember anyone trying to teach me that homosexual stuff was really awful..because it was all bad. Even happily married couples were only supposed to "do it" when they actively wanted to get pregnant..after the 12th child that sort of seems unrealistic..too much pleasure was a problem...

It was sick then and still probably sick today but people are just sort of ignoring a lot of it and going their healthier hopefully ways. But who knows what we will find out on judgement day...the Magdelen nuns were right after all? That would have been what I was lead to believe. mg