Yes, and evidently it's the same behind the altar or in the confessional booth. The Catholic Church should have taken serious steps probably 50 years ago to rid itself of this stigma. But instead they have done one of the largest coverups in the history of any religion. I don't take issue with Catholicism as a religion, but I think that society has the right to sue the pants off of the Catholic Church at least here in America and start putting guilty priests into jail for very long times coupled with crippling financial forfeitures. Just because it's a church, doesn't mean that it doesn't have to obey our laws.
In all fairness it’s not just the Catholic Church. I recall when then Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau prosecuted some of the abuse cases a conflict of interest issue arose. Apparently, a cantor at the Beth Emanuel Synagogue, which his family were members of going back 100 yrs was accused of abusing his nephew. Don’t know what ultimately became of that.