I am certain that there are internal forces not just in the vatican but worldwide who fail to understand the fundamental issues involved in sexual abuse and among them are those who work actively or through passive resistance to derail attempts to be responsive to what properly called a scandal - acts or failures to act which place obstacles to people's trust and respect in regards to the church and Christ. 

but it is possible for people to find zero tolerance inconsistent with our faith and tradition. meditation on mercy I find makes me uncomfortable now with zero tolerance. I  find it near impossible to square with Christ's teaching.

legally church tribunals are not courts of law but of equity. 

canonical penalties are fundamentally geared to be medicinal - to work to make as whole as possible offender and the harmed  which seems here too vanilla a word .

perhaps it is time to face what is actually expected of the church to arrange situations in which healing is the objective.