I'd wager that the rates of abuse in public schools are not as high as in Catholic schools. I'd go so far as to say that there isn't necessarily anything about

I'd wager that the rates of abuse in public schools are not as high as in Catholic schools. I'd go so far as to say that there isn't necessarily anything about Catholicism that produces more pedophiles than normal, and that there aren't necessarily more pedophiles employed by Catholic schools than by others. However, it seems likely that there's something about the institution that produces more molesters than normal, and clearly there is something about the institution that causes it to lean towards quieting and covering up accusations rather than rectifying them. It doesn't really have anything to do with the reformability of pedophilia; the church faces the necessity of changing either how it handles molesters, or how the nature of its organization seems to create more molesters. The problem is that the church is an institution that seems loathe to change in general.