text: I understand why you would think that the story of the falsely accused clerics ought to be told.  However, before we can get to that, the institutional Church needs to accept responsibility openly and completely for the abuse, for the denial of the abuse, for the cover-up, for the continued efforts to deny and/or minimize responsibility, and for the continued efforts to deny and/or minimize restitution.  
  If priests were accused falsely, then this was done within the context of the immeasurable harm that the institution was causing those who had been abused and, by extension the entire Body of Christ.  The hierarchy kept insisting that many who were actually guilty were being accused falsely.  How can one know for sure who was accused falsely?  Most of the accused priests were not subject to a judicial process, and if any were found not guilty by a court, that only means that there was insufficient proof of guilt, not that they were innocent.