foreshorten,
In 2002, as the story began to truly break in the US, I would NEVER have assumed that 15 years later, we'd STILL have nothing in place to hold bishops accountable, that the church could hemorrhage billions of dollars, and yet would continue to act almost as if nothing really had happened, other than an "incident."  There are no words that can put all of this into a language that makes any sense to me.

It's not just that the stories continue to come out, but that the structure of those stories doesn't change.  Hide, deny, obfuscate: secrecy, silence, no accountability, no real change...  I would not have bet this was possible in 2002, and yet, here we are!

Even Francis, who came in seeming to offer a great deal of hope, to the point of creating a big commission, implying accountability, has sidetracked the group, having them work on "guidelines" for other countries.    

i cannot speak for others, but all of this speaks volumes to me as to the institutional church.