Laurie K.

Yes, it was and is bad. My guess is that this has been part of the Catholic "tradition" for more than 1000 years.

A natural consequence of excluding evolutionary preferred relationships with women from being "allowed" in an organization.

Since those men entering the Catholic Church still have some form of the evolutionary urges we all have, they found an outlet the Church supported.

Little boys (and sometimes girls).

After a while, the Catholic Priesthood became known as supportive of Pedophilia and abusers flocked to the church to get their jollies.