Hmm... The long story short, the systematic mass child abuse by Catholic priests; their detailed, life long protection is a massive real world and life issue Christian circles cannot deal with. (Catholic or protestant...etc. In this context, that's not really important. It's about the traditional position, the general trust and respect the clergy enjoys. That's how the money flows in.) It's not going to go away and will only grow. What do you do with something you can't deal? You transform and project it. It's a real issue and all that batshit crazy stuff has to have some connection to reality. Well, it is not going to be gun violence, or distribution of wealth, poverty, environment or growing homeless population, is it? It needs to be something emotionally abusive, spiking ire, definitely sexual in nature (the biggest religious obsession) something disgusted by everyone on principle.
So, I think if it wasn't for this major issue effecting their general identity, reputation seriously Orange's first deed as a saviour wouldn't be the pedohile rings. These people have a child like mind. They really do see him like a 5 year old sees Superman. So it is a traditional heroic deed, a signature to prove himself.
[The long part is... Today, the systematic sexual abuse of Catholic priests is a mainstream issue. It's huge, massive. A relatively short time ago it wasn't. Sure, some people knew about it here and there, but it wasn't in the open. That's the crucial thing. This issue is not just something about the crimes commited against thousands of children and adults, but it is also a global crisis and the biggest impact on Christianity in general, which is the major religious base of Western culture. Well, actually it's more accurate to say, it would have been a global crisis for Christianity because 9/11 has changed everything and created a very different world. (I remember watching videos of specific protestors from Europe in mid 90s, they also used to join every kind of major protests to make this issue known. That's actually how I strated to learn about it back then. But there wasn't anything in hand's reach.)
Now, if you have an experience of pre-9/11 world as an adult, it is a 'place' where the media is still dictated by the prime time news in television news channels. That means when something big happens, everywhere around the world people get the same news at the same time. and that's what they've planned and wanted to do with these cases. Exploding the whole thing at once left and right, starting a chain reaction in a time when they can demand the attention of most people altogether. Imagine that. The cases are so openly ugly and straight, weeks and months on end people would have listened or watched about these priests, the ones at the top level protecting them. Thousands upon thousands. Well, it didn't happen. And it has become this big issue going slow, coming and going out of media in parts, and so a huge space is provided for its denial. Most of the people choose not to even pay attention to it. Because it's religion, because they are priests and humans have this incredible defense and denial mechanism, esp. when they believe in something. (There are conspiracy theories about this related to 'one stone 10 bird' 9/11 as you would imagine.)
And then the post 9/11 world politics are based on religious division. It's actually boosted religious groups, forced them to come together. Terrorism, daily life, wars, new media mediums, new trade and economy forms, new laws, fractions. A whole new culture. Terrorism, ideologies and identities have become a new products to sell like shampoo. So the reception and the perception of these crimes and events have changed. Sure everyone is angry and think it's horrendous. That's not the point. Also today, most people would openly say they don't care about it or defend that nobody should care about it because, if someone is stupid enough being that religous, and leave their children with these people, they deserve the face these kind of consequences. Yeah the red pill, post truth zeitgeist.
The point is, it scared the hell out of all the religious circles everywhere around the world when it's become a widely known issue. Because child abuse first, any kind of sexual abuse in general is the main issue in every religious institution. It's a never ending attrocity. Religion is the perfect heaven for these crimes. It scared the hell out of religious people, annoyed and triggered many of them and they've started to hold on anything to deny it. There are cases of priests who's commited these crimes for 50 years while being protected and circulated around. It goes back to around WWI. There isn't a one thing to hold on. It's an unbelievable mess.
It's still largely denied by 'not all of priests like that'. Whatever the fuck that means. Yeah dear millenials, before NAWALT and NAMALT, there was the NAPALT! The history, cultural history lessons in the 22 century will be a 'hoot' and will 25+ age restriction.]
