Solution for QID #83620: During the 1850s, there was much suspicion that the Roman Ca | StudyHelpMe

During the 1850s, there was much suspicion that the Roman Catholic Church -- a foreign religious institution headquartered in Rome, Italy -- was a secret body that held its own laws and, in a pinch, would not abide by the criminal laws of the United States. But doesn't today's rampant priest sexual-molestation scandal (and the Church's widespread cover up that involved a great many Catholics who knew about the abuse by kept silent and refused to inform American authorities) perfectly validate this earlier suspicion of the Roman Catholic Church -- in particular, the suspicion held by the members of the pre-Civil-War Know-Nothing movement?