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While it’s true that every church or religious organization can suffer from corruption and institutional degradation, the prevalence, prominence and astounding cases of abuse and molestation, including Satanic ritual abuse, in the Roman Catholic Church are unparalleled. The attempt to chalk it all up to “liberal media lies” and “fake news” that Roman Catholic apologists used as their preferred form of cope for the decades of the 80s and 90s eventually cascaded into an undeniable avalanche in the 2000s as thousands and thousands of cases broke. In fact, in Pennsylvania alone, some thousand children were abused, while some 18+ dioceses have declared bankruptcy over paying out abuse settlements.

Indeed, it is difficult to even...