I heard about this yesterday on NPR: Michael O'Brien

   They also talked about how the Catholic Church in Ireland has fought to keep the government out of institutions like schools and orphanages, etc... over many decades, even going so far as to bringing down public officials and administrations. Possibly not intentially, but this maintaining of total control of these institutions could only have exascerbated the problems of abuse and corruption. So of course it is the church that must bear the brunt of the responsibility. I know that there has been much good done by the Catholic Church but there are also centuries of inhumanity, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, wars and oppression. So if this current crisis must bring down the church, which I grant would be bad for poor people all over the world, then so it must be.