This sort of answers both of you at once so,
When you have the massive level of child abuse in an organization that the Catholic Church has had, in every country, at every level it is openly accepted within the organization, and in fact as the stories a have been revealed certain facts continuely present themselves, when child abusers were revealed the church just moved them to other diocese in thousands of cases, this is an organizational acceptance of abuse.
I agree that they knew it was wrong and unacceptable to outsiders, but within the church it was not punished or censured in any way.
This attitude persists today with the church routinely refusing to co operate with civil authorities attempting to investigate abuse, the only thing that appears to have dawned on church authorities is that they lose alot of money if they allow abusers to continue so they now tend to still hide abusers (shipping them off to other countries) but they do tend to keep them away from further children.
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