"However, will receiving $286,000 from the diocese somehow make all of this go away? Will it make all your suffering vanish, all the damage heal? Will a big check suddenly make you whole again?
And what of the other innocents who will suffer as a result of these payments? Schools that will not be able to offer scholarships to promising children of modest or low incomes; soup kitchens and nursing homes that will face cuts in diocesan grants; young men struggling to pay more tuition in seminaries; parishes with cuts in diocesan funds or increased assessments from the diocese...and on, and on. What of them?
[...] It seems to me that offering counseling and medical treatment and other services are appropriate, big checks are less so."

The more the Church pays in compensations the faster the cover ups will disappear because Bishops, Cardinals, and the Vatican will be forced to do the only right and moral action: call the police instead of applying Church Law to clergy pedophilia cases.