"There has been a psychic numbness at the heart of clerical culture that has enabled it to keep the most unsettling truths of the scandal at bay."
Church is numbed for it has no easy road forward except to rethink theology premised in self-identity, human and Divine, in and with the Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis.
Clerical culture's presumptive faith-rationale is misinformed from the Garden of Eden beginning.  Mother Nature and God are on the same page. The evolution of consciousness is at an accelerating pace, while church hierarchy still can't quite get their heads around their self-created predicament.