Call me cynical. Nothing will satisfy, nothing will be sufficient, nothing will be credible, nothing will prevent another whack-a-mole head popping up. The children are victims, but the Church is the object of attack, always and again.
Just wow.....
You know what? Calling the Church on it's reprehensible foot dragging and lack of action in regard to the priest molesting children issue is NOT attacking the church. It is holding them accountable and demanding justice. That is not an attack.
That is Scripturally mandated action.
God does not overlook sin in the midst of His people. If the church leadership does not deal with sin it its midst, the judgment of God will certainly fall on it.
If the world caught a pedophile or child rapist on the streets, there'd be no end to the calls for tarring and feathering the guy after skinning him alive. Neither the world nor may religious folks have much tolerance for that kind of perversion. And just who are the ones claiming that the perpetrator is being attacked? Does anyone claim that calls for justice to the perpetrator of a crime, are attacks on him? Or is holding the perp accountable the expected, even Biblical, course of action?
Where is the Catholic church on this issue? Not acting until negative publicity about the Church through the news media FORCED them to? Until lawsuits brought by the victims by the secular courts because the Church wouldn't address the issue forced them to?
There is no basis for whining about attacking the church.
The criticism of their lack of action, which essentially makes them culpable, is well deserved. When they failed to deal with the priests and protect them and not the children, they became complicit in the crime and deserve every bit of criticism that comes their way. They KNOW better and nobody can convince me otherwise. It's in the very Scripture they claim they wrote.
Duly noted you paid lip service to the children who are victims....and yet you swing immediately to whinning about the church being the victim once again....well I wonder how many of those children were assaulted, attacked... again and again and again and again and again and again..... by Priests... and those in the leadership who protected them... though they clearly knew this was happening.
Your church is not under atack so it's useless to claim that over and over....but they are making people angry for not ridding the church of these beasts and allowing further children to be in danger.