It goes back way farther than that.
My maternal grandmother, a refugee from postwar Nazi Germany, told me she left the Catholic Church when she found out; "the priests went after the young boys".
I was too young to "get it". I thought she meant they beat them or something. Obviously that's not what she was saying.
Nazis were big on homo-ism and molesting the young. And Hitler removed all the heads of churches and replaced with handpicked men. I’m sure there have always been some pederasts in various sects,including Protestant sects, but the huge pederast problem in the Catholic Church accelerated tremendously some decades ago. I have no idea what’s happening now; but there are definitely good priests.