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I'm not sure I'd call the Vatican an outlier... they were complicit for decades, the pope relocated one of the most high-profile abusers to Rome... ...and when

• jcranmer 5y ago
  > ...and when does something stop being an outlier? ... the 1300 mass graves of indigenous children in Canada? I wouldn't blame that on the Church--the secular boarding schools for indigenous children weren't any better.
• micromacrofoot 5y ago
  >I wouldn't blame that on the Church--the secular boarding schools for indigenous children weren't any better. fair, but as someone else mentioned up stream... the catholic church has been claiming the moral high ground for centuries, turns out it was a bunch of nonsense and they're the same, if not worse, than everyone else
• mensetmanusman 5y ago
  Those numbers, while horrible, work out to about a couple incidents per parish per generation when the time and population-scales are accounted for. Unfortunately some ~1-4% percentage of humans tend to abuse positions of power. We should always strive for more transparency because these people thrive in secrecy.