Strangely, for one usually so sceptical and questioning, the alleged high rate of child abuse in the Catholic Church was something I simply absorbed from the ether, or perhaps from the ABC. Looking back, I am still not sure why, while enthusiastically poking holes in most other ABC reporting, I was content to accept their claims about the church being the locus of most child abuse. I wasn’t a Catholic at the time. Perhaps it was simply comforting to be able to think of something so nasty as being nothing to do with anyone I knew, or any organisations I…