Actually that has been the defence of all the apologists for the sins of their hierarchy. Remember it is catholic children that have been violated -- the children of your coreligionists.
Remember the conclusion of the priest that wrote the diary of how to succeed as a pedophile. "God will always forgive but society never will."
He may well has said "God and our flock will always forgive..." he would be very close to the reality of the situation.
For your god will always forgive you as he is refection of yourself. If you are mean spirited, vengeful, filled with hate and a paedophile then your God has those characteristics.
If you are kind, compassionate, understanding and loving then your God has the same attributes. Both type will always forgive the believer as you would forgive yourself.
What I complain about is that attention is basically ignoring the scope of the evil and portraying the Church as the major source. They don’t even assign proper blame there. For instance, they don’t seem to know that the bishops have hardly more control over the religious orders than they have over universities such as Notre Dame, yet so many of the bad priests are “religious” rather than “secular” (diocesan)priests. One great failure of the bishops has been in not “branding” errant Franciscans or Dominicans, or in accepting priests from other dioceses whose bishops just want them to disappear. Another has been not seeing how great the scope of the problem is. One percent villians might be acceptable in the general population , for such people end up in prison, but not for a priesthood whose vocation is supposed to be sanctity. Psychologism masked as compassion runs through the Church as through society. Given that the priesthood suffered a collapse of morale after the first heady days of Vatican II, bishops alternated between legalism and pudding-headedness as they sought to fill their depleted ranks. Men who in 1940 would have been sent packing from seminaries or even the priesthood stayed and even prospered. And we see the fruits of this kind of slackness. I would be a lot more pessimistic if I didn’t know how corrupt the priests of the diocese of Rome were in the time of St. Philip Neri were. The improvement that followed gives me hope that a cleansing light will purify.