text: Your question at the end is intriguing.  It would be fascinating to know how many red-hatted princes processing around St. Peters REALLY believe all that they preach and appear (and yet maybe only pretend) to believe.  It is almost impossible to reconcile their collective and continuing failures regarding our children with true faith in and love for Jesus.  This calls into question everything they've taught forever -- as you said so well.  And yet -- with only a few recent exceptions -- bishops in power remain in power, and there are still large sections of global Catholicism that have not yet experienced the harsh light of sexual abuse scrutiny.  
  
  Thanks for your comment -- it said everything to me.