to be all we need to know to decide how to act towards this vile, fleecing-the-poor, abusing-the-vulnerable, shielding-the-guilty, enabling-the-powerful organization.
And I say this as someone who spent the majority (~3/4) of my educational years in Catholic schools/universities, received an absolutely top-shelf education from them which I appreciate greatly, and was NEVER mistreated by any priest/nun/teacher/administrator.
Whatever the Catholic Church once was in terms of cultural patrimony, whatever it once did in terms of charitable or diplomatic beneficence, whatever gravitas-based legitimacy it might have compared to the hucksterism of independent or fluidly-affiliated preachers/churches... none of those considerations obviates the fact that the current Catholic Church, embodied by those now living and their personal memories, chooses to protect child rapists and abusers over embracing justice and with that justice the risk of litigation-based financial obliteration.
As for the figure of "hundreds, *maybe* thousands" I think that could be the correct figure for a very small geographic area, such as a diocese. For the US, or the world, you would need to be considering "hundreds *OF* thousands" if not certainly millions. This is the scale of the depredations people ought to be grappling with.
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