The answer to your question is easy, all organised religions are about power and the retention of it.

What did we expect?

Create a climate and an institution that attracted power wielding pedophiles like bees to a honey pot; and then allow them to offend and re offend, with impunity, nay implicit permission, with only one real rule, don't get caught!

And expect something else?

Time for some real changes! And reflect the selection process for the original apostles, (allegedly) of just choosing on merit rather than whether a person was married, single, gay and in a same sex relationship?

In the pre constantine esoteric Christian movement, celibacy was never asked for nor expected? (perhaps J.C. was a married man, or living in an accepted defacto relationship,(J.C. and M.M.) that was the customary marriage of the day?

And emphasized by the fact, some of the apostles and disciples were married folk with children?

And some would even claim (pictorial records in the catacombs) that Peter's Daughter was selected as a leader and gave rise to the female pope of legend?

We once had a married parish priest, (F.F.) a former pharmacist and someone who was recruited from the Anglican ranks, and like most non catholic clergy, allowed to remain married, and I daresay sexually active?

Moreover, selectively preferencing married people, would surely end the shrinking number of parishes with neither a church nor priest? And indeed, a wife would likely end the need to employ a paid housekeeper or house keepers?

And given married heteros were preferenced, end the flies to the honey pot attraction for "others"!?
Rhrosty.

Rhrosty:

What has ceibacy or marriage got to do with anything? You think pedophilia is about sex? You probably think rape is about sex too. What an ignorant comment!

“A 2012 police report detailed 40 suicide deaths directly related to abuse by Catholic clergy in the state of Victoria.”

The author appears to have sourced this from Wikipedia, which is in urgent need of updating as explained below.

The Victoria Police assertion that up to 43 suicide deaths were related to Catholic clergy abuse is understood to have been a central reason for the formation of the 2012 Victorian parliamentary inquiry.

However, following a subsequent internal police inquiry, The Australian in July 2015 reported:

“After claiming 43 church-related suicides had taken place, police now concede the real figure was one suicide in which church-related sex abuse was a contributing factor.”

(Sources by digital access:
Victoria Police in false claim on child-abuse suicides (The Australian)
Facts, not hysteria and hearsay (The Australian))

The leftist media has appeared reluctant to reveal such an embarrassing finding.

It is obvious the church has committed these sins so my suggestion is that the tax payers (the government) sue the church for the total cost of the royal commission because had the crimes not occurred, the RC would not have been held, and our dollars would not have been spent.

Secondly, assuming they have used tax free dollars to defend their position, the amount they are sued for, in addition to their own costs should be treated as taxable income and income tax should be collected for same.

Its about time these tax free havens are made do the heavy lifting just the same as others as in my view their tax concessions should stop at the front door. No investments or external expenses should be funded through the use of tax free dollars as this creates an unfair advantage toward others. Once the step past the front door they are no longer a charity, they are a business and should be treated as such.