The scandal in the 1930s seems very similar to today’s problems, but the Church still had enough power to hush it up. I mention this because I’ve seen reactionary RCs claim the rape problem dates from the post-Vatican II liberalisation. This doesn’t seem to be so.
In Longerich’s bio of Goebbels (2015), I come across a scandal involving child rape & the Catholic Church in the 1930s. The Nazis make political capital of it & exaggerate the scandal; however, the basic fact remains that this problem in the RCC is decades, if not centuries, old.
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