Joe

This crisis is no longer about sexual molestation - and hasn't been for several years. It's about the enthusiastic, systematic willingness of the Catholic Church to protect itself by concealing the abusers and, for many years, by scaring the molested into silence. Ultimately it is the implications of that willingness - and the apparent inability of the church to acknowledge that it, in itself, was WRONG , which will bring the church to its knees - in several senses.

You are quite right that the situation has been a godsend (teehee..) to habitual church-bashers - but, again, that is not the point. Let them have their moment of glory. The real battle is elsewhere.

Regards