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There's an important diffentiation to be made between individuals who consider themselves Catholic and the organised Roman Catholic Church.
For instance, the latter institutionalised paedophilia in Ireland. The former were the victims of it.
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no there's not, the church is made of those baptised into it. your distinction is between the clergy and lay members.
as for the abuse; disgusting and disgraceful and that applies not only to the abusers but those who covered for them.
but it's also sad that it's become used as a political tool, and used by others to fire their bigotry.
one rarely, for example, sees talk of institutionalised paedophilia in the education or care industries. or see have pedo homosexuals as equivalent butts of jokes or all round stereotypes as pedo priests.