> occasional Catholic Church scandal "It was found that from 1990 to mid-2018, abuse reports about 382 priests were made to the Church, with 625 children, most

> occasional Catholic Church scandal "It was found that from 1990 to mid-2018, abuse reports about 382 priests were made to the Church, with 625 children, mostly under 16, sexually abused by members of the Catholic clergy" And that's just one country, Poland [0]. 1,000 identifiable victims ... just in Pennsylvania [1]. So "occasional" is not the qualifier I would use. Maybe "pervasive" is more accurate? But none of this explains why this is a central topic of right-wing conspiracy thinking. The Catholic Church in the US is almost exactly as politically polarized as the population in general [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases_by_country#Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-pennsylvania.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/catholic-church-sex-ab... [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religio...