I know lots of good nuns and priests too, I was referring to history when there was a great deal of effort to keep the appearances up. It was pretty widespread. My Norwegian grandmother spoke of it, and other people that would never consider spreading false testimony. It was known in the early 1930s. My wife’s dad, he’s anti christian because he knows of this stuff, and assumes we’re all the same.
I just assumed everyone knew of this. I’ll have to find some links or something for folks then.
My parents grew up in Italy so I know the clericalism of which you speak.
However bad it got though, I don’t think in most places it was so depraved as to be burying masses of illegitimate infants beneath the floorboards. Especially since cloistered monastics were behind an iron grill and had busy, busy days of work and prayer and didn’t have a great deal of opportunity or time for those kinds of shenanigans.
If you find something I’ll be happy to look at it though.