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What about the pedophilia scandal?
From what I heard the pedophilia rates are less in the church than secular institutions that regularly deal with children. It's just that for various reasons the church gets more media attention.
It wouldn't matter if the priesthood had ten times the expected rate of child abusers. That would just mean that pedophiles were attracted to the job, it wouldn't be the fault of the church as an institution. The problem is that the hierarchy is doing everything it can to protect the abusers from the consequences of their actions, up to and including lying to police, and doing nothing to keep known abusers away from children.
ETA: Here's a good article.
So do a lot of the secular institutions.
A lot of secular institutions fought unjust wars and tortured innocents, too. What does this have to do with the church's track record of doing good for humanity?
Displacing organizations that would have done even worse for humanity?
What's your source?