"As a result, this gives a disproportionately negative view of the Catholic Church,"
Which is greatly outbalanced by the fact that the two reports on clericl abuse were greatly limited by the period covered in time and the areas investigated.
Not only are there numbers of areas calling for enquiries to be held in their diocese, but whole institutions have been deliberately omitted because of the can of worms they would open up - The Magdelene Laundries, for instance. It appears that abuses have been going on nationwide and possibly for centuries. It is quite possible that Northern Ireland will hold its own enquiry this year and European countries such as Malta and Belgium are now becoming aware that widespread abuse was happening on a large enough scale to merit their own enquiries.   
You may, rather condescendingly IMO, "tend to believe most of the allegations against priests", but I don't think you begin to understand either the extent nor the depth to which these events have effected Irish life.
I was in on a conversation between two volunteer workers who have devoted much of their spare time to working with children, one on sport, the other on music. They were describing how it was now forbidden to associate with four children or less unchaperoned - sad but inevitable.
I used to think that non-denominational education, where catholicism was taught as a philosophy alongside other world religions, was a pipe-dream on my part; now I believe I was being unduely passimistic.
One thing is certain, the church will never again be allowed to wheedle its way into the minds and lives of children in the way it has up to now - thank..... er!!!!
Jim Carroll