What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Catholic_Lady]

And as for catholics priests, it would be more interesting how the percentage looks among people abusing a position of authority, since that's what they do. The general male population isn't that interesting, but teachers and the likes.

These are the statistics for my own country. It's not just about a few bad apples in this case.

Austria

In November 2010, an independent group in Austria[58] that operates a hotline to help people exit the Catholic Church released a report documenting physical, sexual, and emotional abuse perpetrated by Austrian priests, nuns, and other religious officials. The report is based on hotline calls from 91 women (28%) and 234 men (72%), who named 422 perpetrators of both sexes, 63% of whom were ordained priests.[59][non-primary source needed]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_C...buse_cases

Albaris, I believe you have been misinformed:

http://www.themediareport.com/fast-facts/

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Cato, the Catholic religion does not "shelter" these people. The Catholic religion teaches that it is wrong to molest children, and to shelter people who do wrong like this.

Yes, there were people who were Catholic who did horrible things. There were also people who were Catholic who did another horrible thing by covering it up. There are bad people in every group, and Catholics are no different.

Catholicism does not condone any of this behavior. In fact, it vehemently teaches against it.

I agree that there's nothing in Catholicism's catechism that could reasonably be read to support going out and raping children.  I think the bigger point is that the organization from which you're drawing the basis of your morals has been shown over and over and over to be engaging in massively hypocritical immoral actions, shielding those who commit them, refusing to discuss the cases with authorities, and refusing to help the victims of said immoral actions.  Why would you draw your basis of morality from such an organization?  Why not take the base ideas of morality from the catechism and just leave that specific organization?  Unless you believe that it's the literal church itself that's more important than the ideas, I don't see why that would be hard.

I think this is an over exaggeration. Yes, there were bad people within the Church just like there are everywhere. Humans are flawed creatures and being Catholic does not make a human immune from making horrible decisions.