"Introductory remarks in the 2017 report urge church leaders not to assume that sexual abuse of minors by the clergy is a thing of the past and a distant memory."

Our American culture tells us the past is in the past, let bygones be bygones, but I believe that even if not a single child were ever abused again starting today, we still must accept that this trauma is forever woven into the fabric of our Catholic history.  We all must grapple with integrating it into our understanding of Church as both an institution and as the people of God.  Real corporate healing is a process where the victims, the perpetrators and the bystanders all come to an understanding of the role they have played, the impact of the trauma on their individual and corporate lives, and what they must do to overcome the scandal and live renewed lives.  We have not accomplished that yet, by a long stretch.