Why Do Bishops Cover Up Sexual Abuse?
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/why-do-bishops-cover-up-sexual-abuse/
... The answer, in fact, is a simple one. In any institution the loyalty and obedience of subordinates is maintained by some kind of reward given by superiors. ... If BBC executives or Catholic bishops want to shore up their position within their organisation, protecting abusers will ensure that at least an important section of their subordinates are loyal and uncomplaining. Once a culture of abuse is established, more and more people who can be motivated in this way will be drawn into the institution, while the people not wanting to play along will be marginalised, rendered powerless, and leave.
Superiors tolerate and facilitate abuse because it increases their power within the institution. It does not matter what form the abuse takes: emotional, sexual, spiritual, or even financial. Within the institutional Catholic Church, the toleration of all these kinds of abuse can be found. ...
The abuser knows his bishop can denounce him to the authorities any time. That does tend to make the abuser rather compliant with the bishop's wishes!
At root, it's a power trip.
Why single out “Bishops”?
Why not ask about cardinals, diocese, parishes, churches or just simply why does the Catholic Church do such and such?
What precipitated this sudden witch-hunt for “Bishops” when public schools and sports have far more pedophiles and groomers than the Catholics - and it’s not even close?
Why are the article author and op specifically trying to sully the title of “Bishop” all of a sudden?
Cardinals are bishops, it's not a separate rank.
The heat is on bishops because they enabled the abuse to go on much longer than it ought to have done by shuffling priests around and covering up for them. Bishops are also the ones in charge of seminary training, where sketchy men should have been weeded out. "The buck stops" on the bishop's desk. It is quite legitimate to be holding their feet to the fire.
Yes, you are quite correct. There are pedos and groomers in schools and sports and in all walks of life. There are numerically many times more teachers and coaches than there are Catholic priests, so you are going to get more pedos in aggregate, but even the percentage of groomers and pedos is higher with teachers and coaches than it is with priests. And yet, there has not been the same level of concentrated effort by the public to hold to account pedos and groomers amongst the ranks of teachers and coaches, and school boards and sports organizations have not been sued to the same extent the Catholic Church has been. For some reason all the focus has been on the Catholic clergy. The searchlight really ought to be broader, I definitely agree.
The criticism of bishops is not sudden; this is one in a long number of articles by many people in many publications on the subject.