I am glad that other Christian churches than the Catholic Church are beginning to be put under the microscope.I always felt it was probably a universal problem amongst all religions. People in positions of power all too often abuse it…not just religious; politicians, corporate leaders…anyone who might be able to direct the actions of others. (Let me state that I am not implying that the Catholic Church should be cut any slack for anything.)

This sort of thing has been going on to my certain knowledge for the last 60 years, and from what I can make out from history it has almost certainly been going on for the last 200 years, and probably as far back as the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, nearly 1,700 years ago.

It is called people believing that they can do whatever they want in the name of their particular sky fairy, and they will be forgiven by confessing their sins on Sunday or Saturday depending on their particular religion. Such people are psychopaths and society seems to be at the moment largely powerless to control them. Unless and until society chooses to address the issue of its psychopaths this issue will continue into the foreseeable future.

Potential victims attract predators.