I grew up around sexual perverts in the 1960's

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I grew up around sexual perverts in the 1960’s

I know a number of catholic kids who were sexual assaulted.
When we kids exposed it back then. It was no big deal.
The catholic school I went to didn’t want that problem. Exposed.
Only that the kids were “ashamed into silence”

It only took 50 years. For it to be exposed
 
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I am sorry to hear of this. I hope justice was somehow served albeit 50 years later.
 
Good that sexual abuse is exposed (of course, the place where most children experience that abuse is at home, by a parent or quasi-parental figure. Institutions like schools, Catholic or not, have abuse to a much lesser though still significant degree).

I am always amazed that there is so little call for supervision and child welfare among families, including foster families, when that is where so much abuse lies. . .
 
I feel like you’re trolling, while it is important that this is exposed, it’s also important to note that this was not strictly a Catholic thing.
 
We are currently in an atmosphere where such things are being exposed. Just look at the “Me too” movement, started only a few months ago–yet this horrible stuff has been going on in Hollywood and in political circles for eons.
There was a time when all this was routinely covered up. It was just a “given” that it would happen. And yes, terrible as it is, it has happened in the Catholic Church, and many other churches as well.
It is your call to expose what needs to be exposed so it can be healed. And work on your own self-healing and forgiveness.
 
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There was a time when all this was routinely covered up. It was just a “given” that it would happen. And yes, terrible as it is, it has happened in the Catholic Church, and many other churches as well.
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I’ve heard similar things about abuse in the home as well - that it was often treated as just “family business”. Or filed under “children lie,” especially as kids often don’t have the right language to explain appropriate versus inappropriate behavior.
 
Well it was a issue at my catholic school. And among the catholics I grew up with
 
And among nobody else? Or are you focusing only on Catholics because that’s who you grew up?

I could understand the latter, but you appear to imply that the perversion was either limited to, or more prevalent among, Catholics, and that had you attended a non-Catholic school or been raised among non-Catholics, the perversions would have been less or attended to.

Also, in addition to sexual perverts you also grew up with morally upstanding, God-fearing, kind and generous people. . .and a whole host of people who were ‘in-between’, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Right?
 
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