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.
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.
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Liberal modernism does not create sinful dispositions, but it amplifies them & removes many checks on them. At any rate, modernism only became evident with Vat II; it had been covertly festering in the Church throughout the latter 19th & 20th centuries.
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