my parents and all the wider family where (hardcore) Catholics, a lot of kids, in church 3-4 times a week, 2 cousins became priests, 1 a nun. I was an altar boy

my parents and all the wider family where (hardcore) Catholics, a lot of kids, in church 3-4 times a week, 2 cousins became priests, 1 a nun. I was an altar boy until 12 spent my holidays in Catholic summer camp nearly every year. Catholics they way I experienced them in my childhood, aren't any less prone to showing extremist tendencies. Ask a Croatian women how they feel about having an abortion (legal in Croatia) performed without anaesthetics simply because the nun-(nurses) feel they should suffer, ... the abuse I have seen the Catholic church get away with (in places like Austria, Ireland, Croatia, Czech, Italy, ... to name my favorite backward Catholic extremist places in Europe) isn't any less violent or "backward" than Islam. Nobody who is devout will at all accept even partial critic such as "opposing some aspects of <their religion>". Religious criticism is always total and considered an attack when it comes from somebody out of their faith group. It can only be discussed (respectfully) with people from the same religion (if at all). I haven't met any (Catholic) who would accept probing or questioning from an outsider. If somebody says "yes but Catholics don't go blow up people", they're wrong. It happens/happened all the time in places like Indonesia or Ireland or when they are a minority that is under pressure. It doesn't matter what religion, if you push people hard enough they'll snap. Even more so if their homeland is bombed and they've already lost half their family.