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>. Priests aren't in it for the money or an easy lifestyle

Right, which immediately rules out like 95% of Catholic men from even considering the occupation. There aren't a lot of applicants to the job.

>Similarly I don't think the church is so worried about optimizing their training costs that it could be a plausible root cause.

Each priest has received 4-5 years of training that the Church paid for. Basically every other industry would also bend over backwards to save their ~$100,000 investment when they already have the hiring problem I mentioned.

I don't disagree with the rest of your post, Catholicism has a lot of problems. Even without those problems, they act like a lot of other companies that make similar choices of overlooking abuse because it's profitable to do so.