OK, Answer this then...
From the TOP of your religious Xmas tree...
Address this if you can, this is not just some silly priest in some backwater town in the boonies.
This is the highest echelon of the Catholic church.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-07/royal-commission-into-sexual-abuse-/8246584
Dr Thomas Doyle, a United States canon lawyer and expert in areas of sexual abuse by clergy, has been giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.
He claimed Pope John Paul II knew children were being sexually abused by priests and the Catholic Church attempted to cover up allegations.
Dr Doyle said victims and their families were coerced into keeping quiet about the abuse, even threatened with ex-communication.
Staggering numbers revealed at royal commission
Yesterday,
data collected by the royal commission and released for the first time painted a damning and systemic picture of child sexual abuse within Catholic institutions.
Gail Furness SC used her opening address yesterday
to reveal 4,444 allegations of incidents of abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 were made to Catholic Church authorities.
Between 1950 and 2010, she said there were 1,880 alleged perpetrators from within the Catholic Church.
This is the 50th public hearing of the four-year-long royal commission and it is the 16th dealing with
abuse in the Catholic Church.
The royal commission has investigated how institutions across the country, including schools, churches, sports clubs and government organisations, have responded to allegations and instances of abuse.