No doubt at all;  reprehensible.  We all have a moral compass to which we must adhere, and what I wrote was not meant to absolve the bishops and cardinals.  But, there also was a culture, and a church insistence of hierarch's peril of sin by exposing church to scandal.  Those bishops ignored law, did not protect vulnerable children, were lying deceivers, and should have been jailed...the children suffered from bishops who were solely interested in climbing the hierarchy ladder.