When I was a kid, my grandmother worked at one of the Catholic churches where the priest had been accused of sexually abusing children. I had been to this church, shaken this man's hand.
During this time, my grandma appeared on the news, wildly pleading, "He's a good man! He did nothing wrong!" I remember my father's crazed laughter as he manically searched for a VHS tape to record the scene.
Never mind he went to court at least. It seems that of all the horrors he didn't rape them or the ones that he did were the ones too scared to testify.
I am about sick of people singling out Catholics; not because Catholics are innocent, but because it's religious institutions, in general. Cat's are not the first or worst, it's time to stop pretending they are.
They are the butt of the jokes but others are just as guilty of abuse both sexual, physical, and mental.
Muslim Imams rape young boys. Christian youth pastors sexually assault children in their charge. In my opinion the only difference is that Catholics have designed a worldwide network to move abusers around, knowing they would assault and rape again.
I guess they get singled out because the church did it "better" than anyone else did. The numbers of kids who were raped is staggering, in some places over a percent of the children were of the total population.
Indeed, this is not about this or that faith. It is about power. Wherever people have power over other people, abuse happens. Faith is just one of many possible ways.