Why the title is "Cavalry" ?

Ironic that your post ends with '...so they can keep on doing it'. What apologists routinely fail to understand is that much of the outrage directed at the Catholic church relates to the way it has systematically tolerated and even facilitated paedophile priests. By encouraging complainants (or their parents) not to go to the police, and by dishonestly claiming abusive priests have been removed from a position where further abuse might be possible, the church is thoroughly complicit. Any school who merely passes a rapist teacher on to another school, allowing him to continue his abuse, would be as complicit. I'm sure this has happened but it clearly isn't the school system's default response, unlike that of the church.

As for how many teachers vs priests abuse... what a meaningless comparison to make. There are rather more teachers than Catholic priests. Priests have a greater psychological hold over the victim, how can we ever expect to know how many have been abused? Many of those who come forward to their family never go public. There can be powerful pressure applied to a family by the church, much less so a school. Does a priest not have a responsibility to a greater moral veracity than a teacher? Is the abuse of the position of trust held by a priest not worse than that of a school teacher?

Given this highly structured organisation with a potent hold over it's congregation has been shown to be riddled with abusive perverts, has been shown to facilitate their abuse and has shown an utterly contemptible lack of sympathy and honesty to the victims, why would someone come to a board like this to argue it's not the problem some think? Even if you believe it, and I think it's safe to say the typical Catholic can (must!) believe just about anything, is it really dignified to come to a forum that will clearly be frequented by abuse victims in order to suggest it's all been blown out of proportion and, anyway, the UN are just as bad but the media keep it a secret?

The current pope appears to be a very good man. It's a shame so many of his priests are not. It's an even greater shame so many of his flock are disgusting, morally vacuous sniveling apologists.