Sexual abuse in the Catholic church. How widespread is it?

[Rev. Rye]

Waiting? For 40 years?! I mean talk about monk's patience. But that's actually called being complicit. And also all that time Catholic Church is selling people the idea "Let us deal with this problem our self." and yet if this is the way they "deal" with that problem (and too many cases show they do) then let the police deal with it.

Pretty much. Look at Crimen Solicitationis; for years, it was the official protocol for the RCC for dealing with sexual abuse by priests. And by dealing with it, I mean just dealing with it like it's an ordinary sin, except that, instead of the priest-confessor being sworn to secrecy, it was the victims for whom the seal of confession was binding. Note: the sacrament of reconciliation does not normally work this way. And then the priest is sent to another parish for the cycle to repeat, because just doing the right thing is so much harder than this cycle of horseshit.

I once had an accounting class, and the professor talked about the BP oil spill, and he mentioned that it could have easily been prevented, but managerial accounters decided the repairs necessary to the Deepwater Horizon were too expensive and not cost-effective, and so they ended up with a disaster so big that the oil pool could have been seen from space. His moral: "Do the right thing the first time. It'll cost you less in the long run."