What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[abaris]

Catholicism does not condone molestation. Neither does it condone covering it up. The Catholics who molested children as well as those who covered it up were going against Church teaching.

There are bad people in every group. Catholics are no different.

Which ultimately brings us back to the issue of morality. They brushed abuse under the carpet for decades. There are some claimants that have been abused 50 years ago, but because they were orphans at that time, noone believed their claims or actively supressed their stories.

That's especially true for Ireland where the catholic church held enormous political power in the 50ies, 60ies and 70ies.

So they brushed it under the carpet to save face. That's not moral, that's simply political.