Why?
Nor will I villify the Pope.
If he was involved in covering up these crimes why not vilify him?
Even IF, I am not tossing out my faith.
If a Republican tosses trash on your lawn are you going to become a Democrat?
Of nearly two thousand years of the Church's existence, I am supposed to toss my faith over the alleged actions of one man?
Get thee behind me, Satan!
If I was going to discard my faith, maybe I would have done it over some of the Medieval actions of the Church, but wait, no one is selling indulgences any more. Nevermind.
The deceiver throws new things, old things in new wrappers at the Church all the time, and to deal with that the Church must adapt. Such adapationa do not necessitate fundamental changes in belief, only in the way events are dealt with.
As I said, no organization composed of humans will ever be perfect, but it is one steadfast in its opposition to abortion and homosexual union, and yes, even pedophillia, regardless of how badly incidents may have been dealt with by individual humans within the Church.
That the attack continues against Catholicism makes it more obvious to me that those who are bringing that attack, the vampires of the media who make their living off the blood of victims daily, who only seek to fill their bellies over the corpses of the dead (while dropping the cliffhanger so you will watch the soap commercials long enough to see the rest), who number among them many who just might engage in acts every bit as repugnant as any they accuse the Church of covering up, just might have an agenda of their own.
Namely, to remove the last bastion of opposition to their own pet perversions, ones which other Churches have 'compromised' on, but the Catholic Church has not.
I see no media crusade to disband the public schools, yet we hear monthly or more often of incidents of pedophillia in them, and we know not how many of those have been covered up. These are events of twenty years or more ago.
Ultimately, we will all stand before God, the ultimate judge. Until then, I will stand with the Church as it deals with the foibles some of its clergy may have, because I see little better, and certainly not enough to make me become apostate.
YMMV