Interesting article Straight Arrow, thanks for that.

Perhaps the reason for the "high" number of boys being abused in the Catholic church is that until the last decade or so the Catholic church was still somewhat segregated, in that boys and girls orphanages were usually kept separate and Priests rarely had solitary access to girls.

Vicariously to carry on with what you're saying, In Canada we had a similar issue as the Catholic Church with Residential schools (one of the more misguided government initiatives to try and make the Native Canadians fit in) There was a huge amount of abuse at these boarding schools across the board, with most of them being run by Protestant Church groups. Which is why I say the celibacy factor isn't the issue, the issue is that the Priesthood, (as is being a teacher, coach, etc,) is a very attractive job to a pedophile.

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