The stuff I posted on that thread I also posted on here. I don't think my links and pictures got deleted, and I assume they are still on this thread although I haven't checked.
For parallels see Catholic priests in pre-1990s Ireland. I'm sure there were plenty of priests who were not abusers. But that's not the point.
It wasn't just in Ireland, the priest of my childhood English Catholic church was convicted of sexual offences against children a few years ago (thankfully I was never alone with him) and there are loads of cases in America. It wasn't the country of Ireland that was the problem (although they also had the abuse in the laundries as well), it was the Catholic Church itself. It was so beyond criticism, anyone who dared to question anything (and they were few and far between anyway I think) was met with 'how could you say that?... How dare you accuse X of that... etc'.
I remember being in Ireland once when I was young and my Aunties having a conversation, this was probably mid 90s so doubts were starting to be raised - they were talking about a rumour that someone they knew had been to confession and the priest had made a sexual remark to her in confession. I remember thinking that they believed this woman because they knew her well and they knew she wouldn't make something like that up, but still couldn't quite bring themselves to believe that a priest would do this.
The Catholic Church is a brilliant example of an organisation that attracted bad people because they knew the organisation itself would be a great cover up. Predators were attracted to the priesthood because they knew it would be a good way to carry out crimes and get them covered up, not because loads people who became priests the subsequently started to develop abusive tendencies. There are too many stories of abuse within the church for it to just be 'a few bad apples', the organisation enabled it. However, the fact remains that most priests were and are still good people who generally want to do the work of God.
We have seen it with big charities as well - sex abuse at Oxfam, how could anyone question these men they are charity workers they are 'good people'? Why would someone who works for a charity want to hurt anyone? See also Jimmy Savile.
We know from history that when you have an organisation that can never be questioned, even when stuff is staring people right in the face, that organisation becomes incredibly attractive to people who want to carry out bad deeds.
Every time someone like Mhairi Black dismisses people's concerns about 'Flow Job' visiting schools and then posting photos on their adult social media without parental permission, as 'hateful' ....every time someone like Owen Jones dismisses people as 'homophobic' because they think that the NSPCC should be coming down like a tonne of bricks on a man (who happens to be gay) who wore a gimp suit and filmed himself wanking in the loos and then linked that video directly to the fact he is someone who works at the NSPCC...every time someone like Munroe Bergdorf dismisses people who have concerns about Desmond is Amazing as 'bigots'.... The umbrella of LGBT+ becomes a little bit more attractive to certain people.