It is not saying that in bygone days, sexual abuse was seen as a psychological item to be treated or cured. It is simply saying that it was seen as legal in to abuse children, although potentially immoral, and that when it because illegal to abuse children, that the Catholic church unilaterally decided to not only stay silent, but to continue to allow rapists to have contact with potential rapees.
Psychology is a new “soft science” that, I doubt, was around most of the last 2000 years, to be referred to as an authority on how to handle legal and Scriptural concerns.
Psychology is not considered an authority on such matters in Protestant churches.
>>Psychology is not considered an authority on such matters in Protestant churches.<<
Of course! That’s why there is NEVER any child abuse in Protestant churches.
And I’m not sure where you are getting that it was “legal” to abuse children. Except in your clouded view.
When I worked Psych, we thought that the people were curable. That meant that they would be left in their lives and treated. It was a horrible mistake but it was done. There is an amount of blame for the doctors treating them as well.