Originally Posted by
Adam Strange
The practice of the Catholic Church to overlook abusive priests and nuns and to simply transfer them somewhere else is the natural, self-preserving response of an unchecked institution to the problem of having a very hard time of recruiting new workers. Not many people want to be priests or nuns anymore, so they do everything they can to keep the ones they have.
This natural impulse to hide the bad that one does is the reason the US has three branches of government which police each other.