[Bowler1]

[It condemned what it called the church's cover-up and culture of silence.]

The line above says it all. The Irish Catholic church has/had the same problem. This year the Catholic embassy in Ireland was closed and could be linked to its poor past. Regardless the real result is people like me. Raised a Catholic and could not care less about this out dated church today. If a church cannot act and protect innocent children, then its no church of mine.