This is another really good and interesting subject which is:
1) Off topic
2) Being diverted into a tennis match of personal invective when there are worthwhile observations to be made about the effect religion (or institutionalism) has on silencing internal dissent.

If the partakers are serious I recommend they start a new thread on this subject.
As a previous denizen of Boston I was very moved at hearing of the community action required to bring protected criminal priests and their misbehavior into the light. There is an EXCELLENT movie about this: "Spotlight". I was also very affected by the movie "Philomena".

I am not personally Catholic. But I know Catholics. A lot of 'em. I've been to Catholic services, and there are many Catholic movers and shakers in American life. They have been affected by these events. Therefore, so have been I.

When these revelations took place in Boston, it was obvious to me, thought not publicly in the Catholic community, that Boston was not some exception. Now one of the most important men in the Catholic church has been summoned back to Australia to face the music. We could talk about whether this is an international multi-religious issue (which it is) and whether or not the structure of the Catholic church lends itself to a particular spectrum of abuse (which it does). And whether other religions have their own structural particularities (flaws) which render them similarly open to problems (which of course they do).

To me this is way more interesting than the back-and-forth going on right now which are bringing out personal weaknesses that are obvious to the alert reader.