Catholic Church is a sex cult
Cool! Have they got hot chicks there?
The abuse was widespread and worldwide. Many bishops were involved in the cover up. The principal of my secondary school (high school) was a pedophile priest and abused many teenage boys, especially those who were borders at the school. The local bishop covered for him and other pedophile priests in the County. Sometimes they were ordered to move to a different parish, but that seemed to be the extent of any disciple and the police were not informed. The same thing happened all over Ireland and it all started coming to the attention of the media in the 90’s. To be fair to Francis, if he did cover it up and ordered everyone to keep quiet, I don’t think he’s the first pope to take this approach.
I sometimes wonder how many centuries this went on for because I’m not convinced it’s a recent phenomena. There was an ex-nuns testimony that I heard that was very harrowing about being abused physically and sexually whilst in a convent.