You say that as if every single clergy has done such wrongs.
Not all, but I do think that we've only scratched the surface of the problem.
For every pedophile priest whose been brought to light, there are many more who are still hidden.
For every pedophile priest, there are several other priests who had reason to suspect but did nothing.
And the Church has done virtually nothing about the second crime: the first crime was the abuse itself. The second was the cover-up of the abuse; that's where the Catholic Church is unique, and that's where I think its downfall will be in all of this.
The only case I know that matches the Catholic sex abuse scandal is
Pitcairn Island: while it's much smaller in scale, it's similar in terms of pervasiveness of the scandal. And that didn't work out well for the people who had a hand in the abuse or the cover-ups.
Fact is, the public school teachers are worse, and the protestants are no better.
I'm not so sure of that, but I do agree that no field of work is immune to evil people. However, most fields of work don't come with institutional hierarchies that try to protect the reputation of the institution at the expense of the victims of those evil people.
Bad fruit, but this grevious sin isn't limited to Christ's Church alone.
So... you agree it's the product of a bad tree. The fact that there are other bad trees doesn't change this.
Jesus said His Church will be made up of "good and bad" members,
He did? When? Is "good and bad" a direct quote?
if you're church or atheist group is made up of all sinless perfect members then we surely can say that your group isn't connected to anything formed by our Lord and Savior Jesus.
If I learned that the leadership of a group I belonged to had protected and enabled child rapists, unless the group threw those leaders out on their ear (or, even better, into the hands of the police), I would leave it immediately.
