Actually, US hierarchs have one man, Jeffrey Leno - an attorney in Berkeley CA - who has mapped the overall national legal strategy and response to the scandal.  The cover-up of the hierarchs has as one of its goals is to bolster the political hegemony of the hierarchs over the rest of the church.  It is that political goal that requires the sleazy, no-holes-barred courtroom tactics the hierarchs have used against survivors:  take no prisoners!

The Gospel has no place in the thinking of the hierarchs when it comes to sexual abuse and exploitation of children by priests and bishops.