This stuff you hear on the media is but the tip if the iceburg.
Nothing like this has ever happened in my direct Protestant family, and why ???? Because the ministers and lay preachers get married, have children, and lead normal lives outside of the church. Sure, I've heard of Anglican ministers having affairs....but don't lots of folks ??? It's not abuse of anything.....I'm sure their affair partners are quite willing. There is no law that criminalises an affair between two consenting adults.
Within the Catholic church it is different, as you do know. They have priests and nuns who are not allowed to marry (humans that is) and must take celibacy vows.
My first wife was Catholic, and her elder sister had an affair with a French Catholic priest when she was but a choir girl of 15. My ex brother in law, who entered Catholic college to become a priest, was so sexually abused by his teachers in his first year of studies, that he left.
They made no complaint, as 99.9% of those who are abused don't.
All of this is kept quite by the victims, and in my ex's family, the knowledge was only shared amongst family members.
So it goes on more than what you think....in fact, it is quite rampant within the Catholic church.
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