Better late than never, Pope Francis. Here's what the top commenter for Ross Douthat's latest offering had to say about the sexual abuse crisis in the church:

"You’d think that an institution that got away with molesting children for so long would lay low and praise the Almighty that they still exist. Putting the Vatican on the auction block to pay reparations to the survivors might have been a reasonable punishment for their unspeakable crimes, to be followed by jail time for those who aided and abetted serial molesters. But instead, they merely kick out the old pope, hire an affable guy to put a smiley-face on the problem, and signal that the Church is now hip, cool and loose. The strategy seems to have worked. The new pope is popular. When asked about the old dogmas, he shrugs. “Who am I to judge?”

That's what most people think about the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is nice window dressing, but until he gets serious about prosecuting offenders, window dressing isn't enough.