text: Be more gentle with those who have suffered. Perhaps you have not? I have not. Therefore it is not for us to take a high and mighty tone.
  So far as your comment about 'the State' is concerned: None of this would have been necessary if the Church had done its duty. It failed to do so. Therefore we need the State (and, indeed, also the UN, if necessary) to clip the wings of the Vatican, in this regard.
  I write as a practising Catholic.
  PS - I suggest you leave the Prophets out of this. If any were here now, they might have a scalding word or two, for the cover-up Church of the last 50 years or so.