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The problem here is simple.  Their response to the scandal is worldwide, and consistent.  They are in concert, in the same way they are when they claim we must believe something.  There is almost universal agreement and universal silence.  The cries of the victims, of the laity, etc. mean nothing to them.    

So the question becomes simple: when is this kind of uniform decision/action holy and of divine nature, and when is it criminal?  They can't have it both ways, AND retain the trust of the public, nor be that touchstone for all that is good and holy.

I don't think bishops are magic.  But I think some of them might.  More importantly, they have long claimed that the powers conferred on them by their ordination come from Jesus, and NOT from the laity.  So we don't elect them, cannot recall them, and generally speaking, have almost no power to make right, what they have messed up.  

It's not defensible.  And it calls into suspicion, so much of what they teach.