text: Yes and they incorporated this in themselves when they were children.  This early neural patterning is very hard to break.  One of the easiest solutions is to become exactly what created your dysfunction.  Hence pedophiles are frequently child sexual abuse victims themselves
  
  I have said repeatedly, ad nausea, that until the theology supporting the priesthood is totally revamped the abuse crisis will continue.  I would certainly hope it isn't true anymore, but the way I was indoctrinated into the Church in my Catholic elementary school certainly caused some experiences that qualify as Adverse Childhood Experiences, otherwise known as ACES.  I would encourage people to google ACES and inform themselves of what this means in terms of addiction, chronic illness, autoimmune diseases, and suicidality.  It may help folks understand why clerical abuse victims are so far behind the 8 ball and why some Catholics just can't get the abuse crisis in it's entirety.