text: Two additional points. 
  I applaud the Australian Royal Commission for exposing what the church already knew but would not report. The fact is there have been countless commissions over many decades that have revealed the exact same issues. The Church refuses to address them.  Instead the Church keeps choosing secrecy over truth. They refuse to come clean. The church refuses to punish complicit bishops, refuses justice to victims and demands to keep policing itself. 
  
  If this was Target abusing your kids and management covered it up, lied and stonewalled. People would burn the place to the ground.  
  But a holy institution that many people believe is their only path to heaven........ Many of those people can come up with excuse after excuse and still donate to this organization. They have been coming up with excuses for forty years. These issues have been public for 40 years. The only reason the Catholic Church has not "fixed" these issues is because they do not want to. THEY REFUSE TO.