From Infidel753:
The world-wide scandal over cover-ups of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is nothing new. Revelations about the clergy in this or that country have been coming in a steady stream for over two decades, and the overall picture has long been clear — predator priests in substantial numbers sexually molesting boys and other victims, while the hierarchy covers up for them by moving them from place to place to avoid exposure, discouraging victims from speaking out, and trying to deal with the problem internally rather than by turning suspected abusers over to the police. It’s that practice of covering up the crimes, which is so widespread and so consistent across time and around the world that it must have long been a systematic policy, that marks the Catholic Church as an evil institution, rather than just an institution that happens to have a lot of evil people working in it.
Over the last month or so a dam seems to have burst, in terms both of public perception of the problem and of the authorities’ willingness to take serious action about it. In the US the trigger was the Pennsylvania grand jury report, which revealed about 300 predator priests and 1,000 victims within just that one state — with the understanding that even so, many further cases doubtless remain unknown. In several other states, Attorneys General are considering investigations of their own. There have been rumors of a possible federal RICO investigation.
Wake-up calls are sounding across the world.