Everyone thinks the priest abuse scandals are limited to the US and post Vatican 2. My older grand uncles and uncles who were raised in Ireland told me that garbage was going on in the 1930s too.
It’s endemic in the RC clergy. Been going on for hundreds of years.
St. Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah: Homosexual Situation Graver than Damian’s Time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/929551/posts