The more I see as the scandal continues to play out, the more convinced I become that the bishops not only don't understand, but that they don't care.  There is clearly a culture in the church that ranks people by their importance.  a bishop is worth more than a priest, who is worth more than a male, who is worth more than a baby-carrier (woman).  Children rank somewhere under caddy's at golf courses.

Francis could make this right if he wanted to, as could have Benedict, or "St." JPII.  The church's reaction is both a choice, and an outcome of their failure to understand.  For all their words, their pomp and pageantry, their books, their power, so little has really changed.

That they don't see this, that they can pretend we don't see this, that they can let good laypeople who are trying to help just walk away rather than respond, says it all.