Religion

Those guilty of abuses both directly or indirectly through their actions to cover up or ignore the abuses need to be dealt with and have their day in court. Restitution of some sort needs to be provided to the victims. The Local and State officials charged with this will hopefully do the best job that can be done in pursuit of the truth and justice.

That said, the self inflicted wounds created by years of abuse, coverup and neglect have damaged the goodwill of the RCC for many and in the long run there will be a significant loss of both membership and funding, to say nothing of the loss of moral authority. In marketing terms, the brand is damaged and I am not sure that it can recover from that damage. There will always be a RCC, but I suspect that it will be smaller and have far less influence than it does today.