There has been widespread media coverage of the abuse of children by Catholic priests and few people are now unaware of it.
There has been almost no publicity about the abuse of women by male members of the clergy and, despite the evidence, the Church appears to have done nothing.
Some women do have fully consensual relationships with male clergy but they are a small minority. When their stories make the media, they are usually of the more lurid 'priest has mistress and secret children' variety.
There is some abuse of adult men but a 2008 survey in America found that 96% of the victims were female.
Abuse falls into two categories, congregants and nuns.
