Semantics will not excuse them either.
Like it makes it any better that they were *older*?
I don't think so.
Let's not forget that this "problem" is not at all a recent one but, according to the book by St. Peter Damien Book of Gomorrah http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/929551/posts, it has been an ongoing problem for well over a thousand years. Do I think the current administration is addressing it? They say they are, we'll see, but to pretend that it is no big deal and others are doing it does nothing to help the credibility of a church that claims it alone is THE church Jesus established. As a matter of fact, it does immense harm to HIS name and further proves that Catholicism cannot be the one, true church. Do Christians exist in the Catholic Church, yes, I think so, but it is far too limiting of God to presume all Christians are Catholic or all Catholics and Christians.