That’s right because much of the laity condoned it by worshipping the priest instead of God.
That's the same garbage Voris is spouting. There's no evidence that anyone condoned pederasty. If some people, in an excess of loyalty to a given priest or to the Society, wrongly found the charges not to be credible, that's a different issue altogether. There no truth to your assertion that "much" of the laity condones pederasty.