text: This topic must be expanded beyond "clergy sex abuse" to abuse of all kinds by clergy. There are priests who engage in patterns of verbal and emotional abuse which are just as damaging to the victims, and if the victims report the treatment, they are ridiculed, intimidated and manipulated to keep silent by those in authority over these abusers, who go merrily on their way, thinking, "As long as I'm not caught in bed with a woman, or a man, or looking at porn on a computer, nothing will happen." They behave like spoiled children, and those in authority enable and protect them.