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And still -- STILL! -- the Catholic Church refuses to acknowledge and answer for the real problem: The systematic rape and abuse of children and young adults for decades, not only under their watch, but aided by their culture of secrecy.

Who were the "great leaders" who "rose up" in the 1990s and early 2000s when the truth about the dozens of rapist priests in Rhode Island and Massachusetts was finally brought into the light of day?

There were none. Only bishops looking to sweep the issue under the rug and buy the silence of the victims and their families.

And maybe they could acknowledge that an entire generation has grown up learning of new rapist priests seemingly every week, and that it's not "technology" that's the issue.

Father Marciano is still wearing his Vatican-issued blinders while ignoring (or forgetting) that one of his predecessors was removed as principal of Hendricken for harming a student in the mid-80s.

Until every single person in supposed authority of the Roman Catholic Church fully, honestly, and repeatedly admits the true past of that organization, they all remain accomplices to its decades of criminal behavior.

Losing attendance and money is the least negative consequence that the Catholic Church deserves.