Joe, I'm just not buying that. Child abuse is endemic in this Church, in the case I was involved in in Belgium 800 cases were covered up by the circle immediately surrounding the Cardinal, a Papal instruction to cooperate with the team I formed has been ignored, this goes right to the top. I have firm evidence of it starting with Pope Leo XIII, and it continues. The tale is too big to write here, but my team includes a Belgian Supreme Court judge, technically in retirement, and Belgium's top corporate ethicist.

Your leaders have failed, and will bring you down too. I'm a Protestant and was very clearly jonahed into it, some intervention instantly forced my hand when I decided I wanted nothing of it. 'Im Upstairs (or wherever) still backed that Church then, but not now, I think. Not exery part is tainted, but because good men like you are doing nothing real to sort out the mess, you're allowing real evil to flourish in your midst.

Leo XIII's chief theological adviser was Cardinal Henri de Bonnechose. His confessor was Bishop Felix Billard, and Bishop Billard was clearly deeply involved in FUDOSI, the French satanic group who put the "naughty" into "nineties". This was the circle behind the Rennes le Chateau nonsense, blackmailing the Pope over his mistress and alchemical interests - interests, in passing, which may lie behind numerous child murders, from Ian Huntley at Soham to Gilles de Rais, the original Bluebeard.

I don't think matters have improved since.