From Dublin;
 Bishop Thomas Tobin;  you obviously have strong Irish roots and as a person who grew up in Ireland in the 1940's and 50's; you would have fitted in perfectly, with the ecclesiastical culture of clericalism, at the time.  Issues of sexual morality were top of their list of priorities. Voices were raised from the pulpit and we were left in no doubt about our destiny.

The American hierarchy has not been exposed  to  Judicial Reviews, similar to Ireland & Australia and therefore can still bluff their way around the clerical paedophile cover-up. A side-stepping of the facts. Our generation will probably be the last of what it was to be an Irish Catholic and your brother bishops across the Catholic world are to blame for the total collapse of credibility in the institutional church, because of their cover-up.  The pews are emptying because of the "loss of faith" in the episcopal ranks;  not in God; by both the old and the young. "Deflection" is not an option for you.