I’ve been saying that for years. Seemingly the Rio Grande is the divider between Protestant/prosperity/freedoms and Catholic/poverty/crooked governments.
Both North & South Americas started out with similar resources and opportunities.
Every time we watch a Mafia movie and a gangster goes to confession, my wife remarks that the Catholic faith encourages law breaking and corruption. Just go clear your conscience with a good confession, and go out and murder someone else.
I do not necessarily agree with her, but my beef has to do with unchecked homosexuality/child molesting going on there.
Or if you’re protestant, you don’t have to go to confession or show contrition, cause, don’t you know all your future sins are already forgiven?
There are sexual molesters in all of them, see the Baptist Church as an example. There are roughly three times as many Catholic priests in the US as Baptist ministers, the baptist current scandal includes somewhere around 400 accused abusers.