Thank you for describing my experience as "good" but of course church+school only comprised a sliver of my childhood, and I wound up as a homeless bum with C-PTSD and lost my faith due to a resounding dissonance between the lovely church+school experience versus the living Hell I experienced at the hands of my adoptive parents.

When the Catholic abuse scandal broke, I was confused because my priests (and religious sisters) were nothing like that, but abuse by lay volunteers is real too, and it wasn't until 2019 when I put 2 and 2 together in that regard.

So yes, A LOT of unpacking!