The visible beginning of AmChurch grows out of the Spellman-Cushing axis in the 1940s.
The largest number of proven multiple offenders came out of Richard Cardinal Cushing's seminary in 1960.
I agree with you that the problem is very widespread-but it's not recent.
In fact, poor Bernard Law, who came to Boston in 1984, was handed a multigenerational sewer to clean up.
His choice to do it and keep it quiet was a poor choice, and it brought him down.
But he was not the creator of the mess.
here's the correct link: