The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ on Earth. Pope Pius XII said so in an encyclical. Everyone who is baptized in the Catholic Church and accepts the authority of the bishops and the pope is part of the Mystical Body. This is why there was never and could never be such a thing as a "priest scandal" in the Church. Priests and altar boys are all part of the same mystical body so there is no such thing as "inappropriate touching." It was all just a misunderstanding about the Mystical Body performing cancer self-examinations.