A tale is told of a priest here in Pittsburgh who fathered children by three married ladies in his parish, before somebody found out what he was doing. I don't know what happened to him. But, as all parties were adults, and knew what they were doing, I'm not terribly outraged.

Read about abuses in Native American schools in the U.S. and Canada for horrors. Not all of them were run by The Catholic Church, or any church.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I know this from experience. Power with no oversight is going to be abused. This is true in a church, in a prison, in the military, in a school, in a factory and any place else you care to name.

There are any number of equally shocking accounts of "baby farms" in nineteenth century England, and I did mention the Ideal Maternity Home in Nova Scotia. We don't know how many babies died there.