"Sorry- let me re-state: Jimmy, you're at it again - facts not in evidence"
The longer this goes on, the more transparently stupid your arguments become.
The Catholic Church are the leaders in the field of child abuse because they are the only runners in this particularly sordid race - there are no other contenders for the title. If there were I have little doubt that you and your fellow-apologists would be jumping up and down and pointing them out; as it is, your silence says it all.
Name one organisation that has harboured paedophiles who have systematically abused children for decades, probably generations, have ignored the abuses until they have got out of hand, then have created an escape rout to allow abusers not only to evade justice, but to continue their abuses elsewhere, defying national law in order to do so. Name one organisation which has been part of the defiling of children in this way and is powerful enough to have broken national law in this way. JUST ONE ORGANISATION THAT COMES ANYWHERE NEAR THIS and you might have a case - otherwise case proven beyond any reasonable doubt - any unbiased jury would convict and throw the key away!
Joe:
"He may not agree with you, but he's open to discussion."   
I suspect that this may be due entirely to the changing fortunes of the church rather than to the character of the Pope. If any good has come out of this whole affair, it is the fact that it is making the church answerable for its behaviour, albeit gradually and extremely reluctantly.
Certainly within my lifetime, if Catholics were to question the word of the Pope, the bishops, or even their p.p., they would be looking up for the lightning bolt. Now we have prosecutions and imprisonment of abusive clergymen, resignations of bishops, the demand for more, and even demands that H.H. should answer the charges against him (even the suggestion that he will be the first pope to be forced to resign) - the times they are a'changin' indeed! I never thought I'd live to see it.
Jim Carroll