I fully understand where you are commenting from FC. What comes to mind for me as a Catholic and part of that same Church; is that the fall-out from the abuse crisis, is a scandal of epic proportions for the credibility of the institutional church worldwide; & the bishops that make up the universal hierarchy. These are the same men that proclaimed and preached adherence to all dogmas; doctrines; commandments;  Canon Law etc. They stood on the "moral high-ground" and by the power & authority invested in them; moralised to the rest of us from the pulpit, how we were all sinners. They could not find anything good to say about us. They preached fear & damnation, and the kept waving their book of rules. I know because I lived through it from the 1940's. The exposure by the Judicial Reviews, of the cover-up of the abuse scandal; exposed how immoral these same bishops were, when it came to their own moral standards. Their credibility collapsed; has not recovered & is unlikely to do so again.