For more than 20 years now clergy pedophilia has been the defining
issue, and indeed the scourge, of the Catholic Church. Child sex abuse
scandals have occurred in every country in which the Catholic church has
a significant presence - from the USA and Ireland, to Tanzania, Germany
and the Philippines.
It's reached as far as my own country - New Zealand, where Fr Bernard McGrath preyed on boys at the Marist Bros Marylands School in Christchurch and later, on vulnerable adolescent streetkids at a charity he was appointed to run.
http://bonmotsminot.hubpages.com/hub/Pay-Pray-and-Obey-Sex-Abuse-Scandals-in-the-Catholic-Church
It's reached as far as my own country - New Zealand, where Fr Bernard McGrath preyed on boys at the Marist Bros Marylands School in Christchurch and later, on vulnerable adolescent streetkids at a charity he was appointed to run.
http://bonmotsminot.hubpages.com/hub/Pay-Pray-and-Obey-Sex-Abuse-Scandals-in-the-Catholic-Church