Commenting from an Irish perspective, it strikes me that there are cultural differences reflected here. The Irish assoc. of priests, developed from a period of the clinical exposure of the clerical child sex abuse and how the hierarchy acted in managing the crisis. The facts were clearly established through Judicial Reviews; in a very small country, where less than 40 years ago, 90% approx, of the population were practicing Catholics. Ireland is a very close knit and informal country.The Irish church played an unhealthy dominant role in society and political life .
West of the Atlantic, I can hear reflected in the report above; voices of the established Catholic church, from times past; strongly justifying and defending the traditional status quo. While the Catholic population would be significant; it is still a smaller part of the overall population; at approx 20%. Therefore it never experienced the dominance of the church across every part of life and society. 80% were not Catholic.