The Catholic Church must do something, some form of penance, to atone for the sex abuse scandal its currently facing....See related thread: Pope begs forgiveness for church sex scandal
"Now, under attack from the world which talks to us of our sins, we can see that being able to do penance is a grace....we see how necessary it is to do penance and thus recognize what is wrong in our lives."
-- from the thread Pope Says Church Under Attack, Must Do Penance
Penance and atonement, sure, but no apologies to "those who giddily display schadenfreude with every new victim discovered." Do you consider yourself in that group? Do you not consider yourself a sinner?
Unlike Calvinists, we Catholics do not consider evil acts a creation of God nor are any predestined to commit them. They are individual choices to reject God both by the perpetrators of these acts and those who seek to capitalize and derive a perverse pleasure from them.
"Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, `God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, `God, be merciful to me a sinner!'" - Luke 18:11