I fear that he and many bishops think that once the abuse stops...."

But which church will be affected by this breach? The European Church? The Latin American? The African? The Asian? What part of Europe? Which segment? What dioceses in the US? Which segment of the US church? I think the receptivity/degree of receptivity of these different churches/regions/dioceses/ cultures/constituencies of the church (to the clergy abuse crisis) will differ as their solutions or "solution-ism" will differ. The crisis has less weight (or more) in some countries than in others. Then you have the polity, as it were, of the CC incarnated in national conferences of bishops, dioceses, canon law, the Holy See, individual bishops (almost 6,000 of them), etc. In all this, it is hard to ascribe one particular view or position or solution to Francis, especially as he looks at the church through the prism of the church's shortcomings and leadership failures. I pray for him and just focus on the US church.