There is a grey area between ‘the bad ones’ and ‘the good ones’ that the entire Church must address, a work it cannot relegate to others
If Vatican officials thought that they could regain control of the narrative concerning the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse crisis by defrocking Theodore McCarrick just days before the recent abuse summit in Rome, they failed to take into account the cases of Cardinals George Pell and Philippe Barbarin.
https://catholicoutlook.org/the-abuse-crisis-and-the-tribunalisation-of-the-church/
https://catholicoutlook.org/the-abuse-crisis-and-the-tribunalisation-of-the-church/