Especially when someone is born in to a religion, like most Catholics are, it is harder for them to recognize abuse of power, because they've lived with that power over them their whole lives, as did generations before.

Now that there is greater communication world wide about this issue, more people feel there is support to speak up.

(Bonnie, that's ok, you can leave your posts, "allow" was a poor choice of words on my part. With that kind of influence, people's defenses are down, which is what I meant).