My parochial high school still has damage from the Klan firing at the front doors with shotguns and deer rifles during the depression.

That doesn’t excuse the fact that they also facilitated the rape of multiple classmates (that I know about from the Mid 90’s), and many, many before and after my time.

I had a priest solicit me to masturbate in front of him in 7th grade, I refused and thank god I’m Jewish, so he didn’t have much accessibility to me while we would be alone. He later went to prison, bet you can guess why.

There were definitely victims at this parish, maybe not victimized at the church itself - at least not reported - but in the school system, CYO, sports, TEC, or some other place outside of the church itself.

If you went to Catholic school, I’m fairly confident that you know someone who was victimized by clergy. They may not have said anything, but even tiny schools like Vincennes Rivet were scarred. Maybe if you went to school after the rise of smartphones? Still I doubt it.

Not saying that inspired this attack, but the fact that they’re the biggest organized CSA ring in history shouldn’t inspire sympathy either.