Since I am an ex Catholic, I am qualified to chime in on that. When I was in school, I didn’t know that some priests were perverts. I was an altar boy, but none of them ever touched me.
I remember one time, however, that I went to confession, and I was confessing my racy mortal sins. I think he was getting his jollies, listening to my sins, cuz he started asking me some extremely embarrassing questions about my mortal sins. 👎 I figured if I didn’t answer him, he might not forgive my sins, so I totally lied to him, so he would forgive my sins. From then on, I lied to the confessional priest, a lot, cuz I didn’t want him prying into my mortal sins. I wanted to enjoy my mortal sins, without some priest getting in the middle of my business. 😄
Later, I realized, after learning to do YOPIOS, that it was all a bunch of bunk. The priest can’t even forgive you for jay walking, let alone anything else. It was then, that I became an ex Catholic. Praise God for that. 😇👍
Yeah, Christ was just kidding when He instituted the Sacrament of reconciliation.....what did He know????