A grand jury report on the sexual abuse of children by clergy in 6 Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses identified more than 1000 victims abused by more than 300 priests over a period of decades.
When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priestthought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away.
When he and his wife Emma settled in Down in Kent Darwin correspondence shows that he made great friends with the local vicar and Darwin would do everything to support his local church except worship there.
After they had gone he sat down at the table, still trembling with unaccustomed indignation, and took up a pile of reports which had been sent in to him by the parish priests of his diocese.
So small a matter as the appointment of a parish priest, occasioned almost always a violent contest, not only in one parish, but in all the neighbouring parishes who seldom failed to take part in the quarrel.