Robert Royal asked Cardinal George why he had soft-pedaled abortion over the years. George said it was because he had to keep the Catholic schools open (takes about $100 million/year), and the big donors were pro-abortion.
That sounds like how John Zmirak described the bishops' collective approach to the abuse crisis:
In case after case, we read in their correspondence, in the records of their soulless, bureaucratic responses to victims of psychic torture and spiritual betrayal, these bishops' prime concern was to save the infrastructure, the bricks and mortar and mortgages.