[The Great RJ]

The three things are needed: FIrst, the mass excommunication of clergy involved either as perpetrators or in covering up the crimes. Second, a reiteration of the Church’s teaching that homosexuality is a grave sin and morally wrong in any circumstance. Third, the Pope should order all churches to conduct special prayers and spiritual cleansing of their premises to ward off Satan and the other evil spirits that are the source of this mess.

[KarlInOhio]

Fourth, actively aid prosecutions of those suspected. Things said in the confessional are sealed but the Church's other investigations are not. Every one of the files on the Church's internal investigations should already be in the local prosecutors' hands. They had over a decade to clean house - now it is up to the state to do it.