This. Ultimately, it’s about people having a heavily trusted position (priest, teacher, babysitter, police whathaveyou) taking advantage of the utmost vulnerable: children.
Definitely sexual abuse is not limited to Catholicism, they just had an extraordinarily structured operation of it that was understood and tolerated at the highest levels. It was a system, not a pattern of instances. That’s why they’re irrevocably associated with this.
You could expand beyond just Catholics
Just one example
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/faqs-sexual-abuse-southern-baptist/
This. Ultimately, it’s about people having a heavily trusted position (priest, teacher, babysitter, police whathaveyou) taking advantage of the utmost vulnerable: children.
Let’s do another religion too
https://www.nst.com.my/amp/news/crime-courts/2025/02/1180698/ustaz-trial-sexually-assaulting-5-students-slapped-another-charge
I do not trust pious people for this reason. The closer to god they claim they are, the further you should stay away from them.
Definitely sexual abuse is not limited to Catholicism, they just had an extraordinarily structured operation of it that was understood and tolerated at the highest levels. It was a system, not a pattern of instances. That’s why they’re irrevocably associated with this.
Mormons too