The seeds of those horrible deeds began with poor formation and selection in the seminaries. It began with the ideas that priests were alter-Christus' at all times, and that they were always to be believed.  Clericalism was fostered by the clerics, long before the 1960's and the 1970's, or Vatican II.  It was this firm belief in the belief of the clergy that they were untouchable that is to blame, that and the circle the wagons, "protect the good name of some abusive priest" that were the seeds of these horrible deeds.  Do you not know even one person who was abused and degraded at the hands of the church? If you do, I don't know how you can continue to publish such drivel.