The evidence doesn’t quite go back 1800 years, but there is 1000 year old evidence against them. It isn’t that hard to imagine that it was probably going on before then, too.
“Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has been reported as far back as the 11th century, when Peter Damian wrote the treatise Liber Gomorrhianus against such abuses…”
Evidence that this plagued the Catholic Church from the start is a your burden to produce with this claim.
The evidence doesn’t quite go back 1800 years, but there is 1000 year old evidence against them. It isn’t that hard to imagine that it was probably going on before then, too.
“Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has been reported as far back as the 11th century, when Peter Damian wrote the treatise Liber Gomorrhianus against such abuses…”
Source here.
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