Better put the church leadership, as a whole, has had great difficulty dealing with their criminal element...which makes them an accessory to the fact. That is what makes the difference.......Additionally because religious and spiritual blackmail was used all the worse when it came to these crimes.
I never heard a catholic refer to their Priests as a “group”. I thought the membership see’s them above the average man with direct contact with their maker? Guess I was wrong.
The Church teaches that everyone is called to holiness,and to have "direct contact with their Maker"-- not only priests. The really important, and really interesting people in Catholicism are not the priests, or even the popes, but the saints.