Quoth Georgiansilver:

>You cannot tar all priests with the same brush.

Perhaps not. But one CAN tar the 'clerical caste' with that brush.

Those who were not abusing turned blind eyes towards their brethren
who were exploiting. Not just children but vulnerable adults who
were taken in by the spiritual intensity and power wielded by these
men.

Oh, it's just a slip. Bless me father, for I have sinned, please
transfer me to a distant parish or another diocese...

Here

Read it and weep.

Sorry, but it isn't at all inconsistent with the 'retrospect' of this
Catholic boy who was considering a vocation to the priesthood or
religious life, and was close to a lot of priests. Or at least the
retrospect of what I found about them years later.

My own spiritual mentor and director, and exploiter of multiple
young men.

Another mentor who was a drunk and finally had the ultimate
'meltdown' and took up with a man 30 years his junior and works
the fine jewelry counter at Macy's.

Yet another who conspired with the first mentor (above) to bust up
an engagement so he could have a crack at the young man, breaking
the seal of the confessional in the process. BUT he was real proud
of marching next to MLK and making the front page of the Montgomery
AL paper!

My high school principal (CSC, go Irish) who buggered a young man
who came to him for help after being buggered by another CSC. Said
young man is now serving life for the brutal murder of his wife. Other
CSC, deceased, had a boy living with him in the rectory after leaving
CSC for the renowned St. John's seminary in Camarillo and joining
the Diocese of Santa Rosa, Ca. Pity the poor orphaned kid who they
took in for two years...

Shall we talk Jesuits? Let's talk John Powell SJ or Mother Theresa's
confessor, the notorious Fr. McGuire, shall we? At least he took them
to Europe to diddle them---