Bingo!
Claims way after the fact may be from bad therapy, a lack of good therapy, greed, or may be true. We really don't know. It's the cover up in real time that gets everybody 10x's madder.
The Church does things very differently now, and anyone who claims that the Church, today, takes this issue lightly or wants to continue an institutional cover-up, is lying.
On the surface that seems to be true, but I think it might be because of the members of the church rather than the leadership. Something doesn't seem right with George Bush granting your Pope immunity.
Have you seen the movie "Deliver Us From Evil"? I DVR it yesterday. I hadn't watched it because it sounded like it was just a hatchet job. It wasn't and it raised some points I was unaware of. If you see it let me know what you think.
As I said on another thread, every adult who wishes to work or volunteer undergoes criminal background checks, at least in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. I had to submit to a criminal background check just to drive my daughter and some classmates to some missionary work.
Same thing
I doubt I will.
Unlike some, I don't expect any more competence out of the Vatican bureaucracy, when dealing with worldly matters, than I do from any other bureaucracy.
The fact is, the Church will always be a target for some, no matter how good it does its job. If one seeks always to ascribe the most sinister motives to its behavior, no amount of "reform" will be sufficient.
The problem in the Roman Catholic church is that pedophile priests usually do not have criminal records because the church has carefully hidden their indiscretions for years and even decades.
And as far as this being a problem of the past, every day there are new accusations against offending priests. The abuse continues because the abuse is kept within the church hierarchy, away from police authorities, because CRIMEN SOLLICITATIONIS is STILL in force.