[TSgt]

Like it or not, the Church is being hammered for doing what was normal for all institutions, which was taking child abuse lightly.

Your examples are quiet a bit different than child rape. And all institutions do not profess to be the world's moral authority.

[RobbyS]

Not all these cases were child rape. Sexual abuse is a broad category. As for being “the world’s moral authority,” the perps were disregarding the standards the Church upholds. The existence of law-breakers does not discredit the law, does it? The problem with the perps is that they served to discredit one of the few institutions that sets “high” moral standards.