Shar, even if most of these bishops have clean hands, they are still guilty of a very serious crime/sin/moral failure in my book.  How often have they called the laity to not remain silent in the face of injustice?  ...called us to open our hearts to the victims of injustice?  ...called us to live what Jesus taught?

Their silence in the face of what guys like Cardinal Law, and those who shielded him have done and continue to do; that silence, that lack Of courage, and the  self-serving protection it has bought them undermines everything they teach, all they call us to be, and ultimately makes the church not a place of refuge, but something twisted, and wrong.

Where were their voices as their own attorneys grilled victims in court?  Yet they DID  use their voices to demand silence from the families of victims, so we know they could have used them.  About the only one who had the courage was Diarmuid Martin of Ireland.  The rest?    ... Crickets....