Justmaybe,
That lack of trust in the laity gets to the very glue that has long held the church together.  The disintegration of that Two-way glue is why the church is struggling, at least in the more educated parts of the globe.  Until not all that long ago, bishops could and did "demand" trust, under the guise of their special "charisms."  I think they took that too far, and decided they didn't need to trust the laity as long as they could command trust, or at least obedience.  

Today, that game no longer works.  With the overt rejection of the counsel of the laity in the preparation for Humanae Vitae, Paul VI destroyed that trust.  The scandal just made it worse.  For some, about all that's left to bond them to the church is momentum.

This is all really simple: human sexuality is far more nuanced and nurturing than bishops want to admit.  It's a gift that is not theirs to control.  And for guys who don't get the sacrament of children, they have no authoritative voice on the matter.