The bishops moving abusive priests around gave many Catholics reason to become discouraged with their faith. I know several who “left” because of this and have never returned. They call themselves Catholic, but do not attend, and I daresay, have given up even praying. I struggled with that myself for a while, but never gave up hope, and desired the Eucharist too much to let humans stand in the way of my relationship with the Lord.
They further confuse the flock by not confronting pro-abortion pseudo Catholic politicians. What a sad state of things.
This was true in the 1980’s and it hasn’t gotten better.