I think if the Catholic Church published the lay's own scandals, it would be a very good thing.

We'd have less of an air of detached contempt and superiority over "rome, the awful bishops, and the institutional church". 

oh..wait a minute...they couldn't do that...that wouldn't be good, fair, comfortable.

Why, that would be humiliating, injurious to my precious reputation, insulting, and illegal.

I'd sue, I would!