A lot of prejudice and ill-judged antagonism towards the Catholic church is very evident from the majority of postings to this list.
It might be instructive to visit the following website which purports to speak for the victims of sexual abuse. "oneinfour.org"
To me the most disturbing statistic quoted is that "one in four" children will be sexually abused. Does this mean that "one in four" children *have been* sexually abused in the past ? If so, then , in Gt. Britain, there must be at the very least 14 Million victims. Where are their voices? In a predominantly Protestant - if not agnostic - country, the Catholic Clergy, Nuns, Priests, Bishops, Monks, Brothers etc. etc. must have been working huge overtime hours to have clocked up this amount of abuse.
I suspect genuine victime - for whom I have the utmost sympathy and compassion - are being abused in quite another way.