How do you even apply for a job like that? If it’s like any other interview, surely there’s some sort of psychological assessment or a background check. Maybe you just need to wear a fanatic facade, and you’re hired… I just have no idea how Catholics roll.

Same with teachers and other child oriented careers. They all attract pedos at more or less the same rates but churches are generally better about covering it up than schools.

plus they get access to children in other means, like boy scouts potentially, christian/summer camps, "charter schools"

It's been a trope since at least the 1500s that clergy are pedos, "Julius Excluded from Heaven" by Erasmus contains this exchange between Saint Peter and the recently deceased pope Julius:

PETER: [... ] I hope it won't be too tiresome for you to answer a few clumsy questions about the details. Who, for example, are these little curly-headed striplings? JULIUS: I brought them up for my diversion.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090326073147/www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/lansing/classes/hist4b/materials/Week7.pdf