I am antidumb-ss.
These guys who think they are so smart covering up this evil are a bunch of dumb-sses. If they would just release all the bad info and be done with it they would take a hit, but in the end people would forgive because they would see the effort to clean up and end the evil.
My FIL was EO and and used to say once they knew they had a problem they should have disclosed everything. It's the cover up that will bury them.
One has to wonder just how damning the evidence is that Rome works so feverishly to hide.
I don't think they can afford to do that based on slippery slope principles. If here, why not everywhere? I suspect they know that to come clean would be financial suicide. In a legal sense to fairly compensate every victim would be tens of billions of dollars. It would bankrupt the Catholic Church, and perhaps no amount of indulgences (even with 0% financing) could bail them out.