Organizations can and do commit crimes. While the individuals may carry out the acts which constitute the crime, the criminal activity can be directed (and in some causes, directly carried out by) the organization. The organization is just as culpable in that situation. You aren't going to suggest are you that the crimes of a drug cartel are the crimes of just the individuals who committed the crimes or that the crimes of the party members didn't accrue to the entire Nazi Party who were directing those crimes?
I would agree that Christ's universal (i.e., catholic) Church cannot commit sin (and therefore the crimes associated with those sins) but that is not the case with the organization that we know as the Roman Catholic Church. As we can see with this disgusting situation, that organization is perfectly capable of committing a conspiracy.
If the Roman Catholic Church had dealt with this issue adequately and didn't publicize it, I wouldn't criticize her, provided the problem really was dealt with adequately. I don't think that anyone necessarily has the obligation to reveal all its problems (barring legal requirements for disclosure). However, the reports seem to suggest that the Roman Catholic Church did not deal with these issues adequately and the silence was a shield to conceal that.
nope....to suggest for a moment that the Roman Catholic Church, headquartered in Rome Italy in any way conspired with the few homosexuals who abused little boys (usually teenagers) under therir control is nonsense...there were, of course individuals who were irresponsible and criminal...but the church itself....no. Were the violations handled properly in every case, no. but in far too many cases current teachings having to do with treatment VS punishment were followed....these people can be helped through psychiatric treatment, it didn't quite work out the way that they thought.bad people, bad behavior, not properly handled....simple as that.