Historical context.
“The problem of a homosexual mafia in the seminaries of the Church has been public knowledge for decades, but has been systematically ignored or downplayed by the ecclesiastical establishment. The scandal was thoroughly exposed in 2002 by journalist Michael Rose in his work Goodbye, Good Men, a work that was ruthlessly attacked by mainstream Catholic media. Regnery published a Kindle version of the book in 2015.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/cardinal-mccarrick-and-the-gay-mafia-corruption-of-clergy-now-rivals-the-ag
This is NOT 2002 part 2. The guilty parties become clearer with each passing day. All will need to choose?
“We are in for a long string of painful days now, but I believe it will become a “cleansing fire.” Many in the Church hierarchy, especially in Rome, are still under the delusion that they can manage this monstrosity. They can’t.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/is-abp.-vigano-the-agent-of-a-cleansing-fire-for-the-church
“Medieval analogies notwithstanding, there is no precedent for the escalating chaos in the Catholic Church. And the individual chiefly responsible for that – whatever his degree of culpability in the case of McCarrick, and bearing in mind the failings of previous popes – is Francis.”
https://spectator.us/2018/08/if-pope-francis-resigns-over-the-sex-abuse-scandal-the-catholic-church-could-fall-apart/
A viewpoint of an evangelical.
“The Church is like a navy, a collection of ships united in purpose and in destination. Each denomination is like a different ship in that navy, and while each crew is primarily tasked with the health and well-being of its own vessel, it’s also deeply invested in the strength of the fleet. Each vessel is more vulnerable as the fleet weakens. Each vessel is stronger surrounded by its protective armada.
If the analogy holds, then one of the mightiest battleships in the fleet, the Catholic Church, is taking torpedoes left and right. It’s now rocked by allegations of wrongdoing that go all the way to the Vatican, to the pope himself. “
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/catholic-sex-abuse-scandals-should-matter-to-protestants/
The choice- to believe or not. I think most though not all chose to know. “It breeds a culture of duplicity. Even if there are no predatory superiors, and every man in the seminary remains faithful to his vow of celibacy, they are internalizing the lesson that sometimes, you do one thing, while telling the laity that you’re doing the opposite. And this is not only happening to the gay seminarians: it’s happening to the straight ones, as well, who can see what is happening, and are taught to shut up and repeat the lie.” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/