The idea of castration as a solution to rape assumes that rape is caused by uncontrollable sexual desire. It’s not. Rape is caused by uncontrolled power.

There is a whole network of enablement in the church rapes: the priests’ bosses, who transferred them and concealed their crimes, the hierarchy going right up to the Vatican who colluded in protecting the reputation of the Church by allowing violent, dangerous people free reign to rape (and I have no doubt sometimes kill) children, and the laity who were too deliberately blind or too frightened to even attempt to expose the rapes. Not to mention the Gardaí, who sent away the few who brought complaints with a flea in their ear.

I have no doubt that similar networks will be revealed in Protestant churches, in Buddhist and Hindu monasteries, in Moslem schools, as time goes on.