[Gorzaloon]

The reality is that most child sexual abuse, except for the most heinous, was ignored prior to the late 70s and early eighties.

Or dismissed as funny. Monty Python had such a skit. The toothy vicar, preaching in the school chapel about how someone composed a prayer in the shower room and he overheard.

"O, God, Thou art big!....etc."

There were many other jokes about it also, which proves nothing except that the culture was aware something was going on all along.

The CoE is a lost cause.

[Tax-chick]

the culture was aware something was going on all along

When the news broke about the priests a few years ago, my mother mentioned that the neighborhood kids knew in the 40's that some of the local ministers were interested in boys (not just Catholic priests). Clearly there was a level of awareness in society.

[Chickensoup]

“Let us praise God. Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen.” (Michael Palin as the chaplain in The Meaning of Life)

This one?