When I was nine years old, and a year after my mother died, my father became a Catholic and my elder sister and I were also "received into the Church", as it was then described. The Church into which we were received was in many ways significantly different from most contemporary expressions of Catholicism. It was unashamedly exclusive, genuinely seeing itself as the One True Church and that all other Christian denominations were at best misguided. (My sister and I were re-baptised, just in case.) People of other faith traditions – including Christ's own Judaism – were generally quite profoundly misunderstood or pitied, or regarded as souls in need of conversion.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/sexist-blindness-stands-in-the-way-of-action-on-child-abuse-in-the-church-20171218-h06gja
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/sexist-blindness-stands-in-the-way-of-action-on-child-abuse-in-the-church-20171218-h06gja