From the article:  
""Let there be no doubts: no other topic is more important for the life of the church," said the cardinal. "If the church is not committed to child protection, our efforts at evangelization will be to no effect; we will lose the trust of our people and gain the opprobrium of the world.""



1:  I'm from Missouri - show me.
2:  The church's leadership has ALREADY lost the trust of many, if not most of its people.

MAYBE we can hope that O'Malley is sincere, and can bring change.  At this point, all I've really seen is window dressing.  Bishops will only be held accountable if they themselves are the abusers.  Today, that's what episcopal accountability means in the church.  15+ years into this, does that equate to real change?