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[Fry Guy]

I doubt it. They will do what they always do, the very least they need to, to make it go away.

My Father went to a Catholic boarding school. They abused him.

He was messed up. Immature, violent and given to melancholy. He was a big drinker and irresponsible. He was violent to me and could be very mean and nasty and petty. Behind all that he certainly had his moments and was far from all bad. He could be fun and funny, loving and strong and occasionally show pride in his children. He was just broken.

It doesn't stop at the victim. These evil old men really need to be beaten to death.

I'm sorry that your family was one of the many thousands affected by such evil bullshit FryGuy.  You're right, based on the victim/family interviews that I've read and watched, the abuse rarely ever stops at the direct victim. 

Too often, children who are abused in their formative years become abusive themselves -- learned behavior.  And those who don't become abusive are frequently broken in other ways due to the betrayal and self-loathing inflicted upon them by people their parents taught them to respect and never question.  It's tragically fucked up.

Anyway, I agree that the Catholic Church has an unforgivable history of doing as little as possible to address and prevent the systemic child abuse.    I do believe they'll do more about it now though, not because I'm convinced that the Catholic Church has  fundamentally changed its priorities and grown a conscience.  But, more so because their unconscionable and criminal abuses have been so thoroughly exposed and proven that it's causing them to lose subscribers (and thuse income) by the millions.

Thanks.

To be clear about two things, whilst I KNOW he was physically abused I don't know for sure he was sexually abused but I believe he was, for a variety of reasons. I remember in one of his drunken melancholy moments he told me of his favourite Priest and how he taught him Latin and treated him like he was special and the favourite in his class and how this priest "turned on him" just like the others and how he never knew what the did wrong? Why he was asking me, I had no idea, I was just a kid. I simply filled our port glasses (he did not like to drink alone and he was not violent or nasty when he was melancholy).

Secondly, I was never sexually abused. I do well know that such abuse is often foisted on children of the abuse. THAT I never copped. So I am thankful.

I have not seen him for 20+ years and the last couple of occasions I punched him out. We did not have a great relationship, something akin to two alpha male in a pack trying to compete for dominance over the other. We were competitors and he was terribly badly equipped psychologically to be a parent. I hated the guy then and pity him now. I think we were both threatened by each other and not sure how position ourselves in the family. He did not help his part by staying out all night drinking and I did not by being my family's protector from both threats and from outside and from him. Bad dynamics.

That is the most I have spoken about my better parent for....well ever I think. I do not think on him often. I do think though he is in no small part a creation of the Christian Brothers. (Look them up).