The Institution must be protected.  An occasional bit of public relations, like setting up a do-nothing commission, is necessary now and again, but the important thing for the shepherds is to protect the fellow shepherds.  This is the code by which Our Holy Father and his Brother Bishops live, and as mere laity we must accept that.  Now if this was some "faith" based upon the words of the "son of god" things might be different.  As Francis and the Bishops demonstrate repeatedly, that is not what their church is all about and they have no fear that they will face any consequences.  They are the Princes of the Church.