If I say — loudly, publicly, and repeatedly — that I run the cleanest house in the world and someone finds moldy tile and makes a big deal of it — why'd that happen? There are always going to be bad people and weaklings in the Church - because it's made up of people! The Church has always said this. Just as Judas betrayed Christ, there will always be Judases who betray their covenant with God. This isn't the first scandal the Church has survived, and it won't be the last.
Mm; but if you'd listened to as many RC apologists as I have, you'd have heard again and again about how united and perfect the RCC is, unlike all other churches, because it is The One True Organization. And we are talking about church officials who, themselves, are under the care of other officials. So what part of the RCC is perfect and flawless? Only the Pope? Nobody living? But something is supposed to be perfect about it, or so the defenders say.
Dan