I think it's because that's when the "Anti-Church", within the Church,signaled the secular press,with whom they work hand and glove to go full tilt.The "insiders" which include about 30 bishops and cardinals as well as members of Call To Action,VOTF,We Are Church have been dumbing down Catholics for quite some time in anticipation of this total assault on Catholicism,Christianity and Western Civilization.
As those within used abysmal catechetics,looney liturgies and various tehcniques to take God and the Trinity out of the Church they were taking the temperature of those in the pews. I think at the end of 2001,they saw a rise in the temperature and knew they had to go hard and fast with everything they had been accumulating for 30,40 years before the "dead" came to life again.
It has taken longer than they had hoped because they did not foresee that some folks were still awake enough to recognize that homosexuality in the priesthood was closer to the root of the abuse problem than the pedophilia on which they were trying to ride to victory.
So the poor Church in this country,infiltrated at every level with Marxists,Fabian socialists and the lavenders struggles along hanging onto the Barque of Peter,praying that God will protect us all as we journey home,back to Him telling all along the way what He had told the Apostles.
"All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
Going therefore,teach ye all nations;baptizing them in the name of the Father,and of the Son,and of the Holy Ghost.
Teaching to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and behold I am with you all days,even to the consummation of the world."Last chapter of Matthew/Douay-Rheims.
Reggie,you are in Boston,certainly you saw the almost simultaneous appearance of the Globe stories and the founding of VOTF.That group is composed of the same old bitter dissidents,malcontents and egomaniacal godpeople that make up the membership of a variety of old internal enemies of the Catholic Church. Follow VOTF's ties and connections to the secular world and you will identify the true enemies of the Triune God.
The organized coverup by the RCC was, and is, the problem.
Do you look under your bed each night looking for the bogeyman?