And what religion was it that has a nasty habit of allowing their priest’s molest little boys??
To give the RC Church its due, it did correct the molestation problem, or at least addressed it.
Islam has had 1400 years to correct its excesses, and it still has shown no inclination to do so.
Thankfully the RC Church has done a LOT of major bigtime clean-up in that area.
On the street I hear this is a problem among all denominations’ clergy. 100 years ago it was virtually unthinkable. A libertine (not libertarian, libertine) society has managed to worm its bad morals into the churches.
The Roman church gets such opprobrium because it is a single large target. Hardly anybody is complaining about little indie churches. But they have roughly equal rates of such trouble. The post of preacher or priest or minister allows certain access to kids, and perverts will exploit that.
I disagree with the Roman folks on some matters of theology. But in this regard they have scarcely distinguished themselves as being particularly bad among Christendom.
That it happens (man being sinful) was not the religions fault, that there were covers ups was.