I think it's time to stop treating pedophilia as an exclusively Catholic phenomenon.
More so because having done so amounts to falling for Catholic propaganda. When the real scandal, that of the Vatican protecting pedophile priests from the law, erupted, the Church engaged in a maneuver meant to obliquely convince the believers that they are unjustly attacked: they started to argue vehemently against the accusation that pedophilia was somehow rampant within the ranks of the priesthood, an accusation nobody made up to that point. The message meant to be conveyed was not that pedophilia is in fact not rampant among the priests but that this is the accusation leveled at the Church; a rather obviously false allegation is much easier to live with than a sinister but plausible one. The maneuver worked, most people swallowed it hook, line and sinker, you ask anyone, not just Catholics at this point, about the scandal and they think it was about the prevalence of pedophiles among Catholic priests. Nope, it was about moving the guilty priests to a different parish and coercing the victims into silence.
