[Antoninus]

No one did anything because the Bishop ran half the schools. The Bishop controlled the DA, and the cops. My friends were told by the church that they would go to Hell. And not today’s hell...old school Catholic scary hell.

Ahhhhh....you've hit on the crux of the problem but you're just slightly off. The bishop didn't control anything--he was part of the club. He was in cahoots with the DA and the cops. He was probably in cahoots with local and national politicians as well and they all protected each other and covered up their disgraces. Since they all had the goods on each other, they all worked together.

This isn't just a failure of the Catholic Church. It was a failure of all of those institutions who were supposed to act as checks on each other and failed to do so--religious and secular alike. These evil bishops could not have gotten away with the enormities they did without the willing assistance of evil men within the secular authorities. If you think the mayor, police chief and city council members didn't know, you're fooling yourself.

And as dsc mentioned above, the media was complicit as well. They only began to blow the whistle on this when the bishops in question were no longer of use to their agenda. They knew for years beforehand what was going on and said nothing--kind of like how they are acting today with regard to sex abuse in the public schools. They know. They are quiet about it. Ask yourself why.

[dsc]

“This isn’t just a failure of the Catholic Church. It was a failure of all of those institutions who were supposed to act as checks on each other and failed to do so—religious and secular alike. These evil bishops could not have gotten away with the enormities they did without the willing assistance of evil men within the secular authorities.”

Which makes the point that it was not possible to expose it all.