Steve - I think you are being cranky. We need some sort of catch-all term for what's going on because you can't constantly refer to it as "Priests abusing kids and teenagers" "Bishops convering their tracks and shuffling priests around" "High-dollar hush money and settlements" "Some still in office even though they've obviously not been good shepherds" "More concerned about the priest-perpetrators than the victims" "Hiring PR Company to try to sort things out" etc.
Now do you understand why "The Situation" is the catch-all term? Everyone knows what's going on. It's so huge it has it's own name that packed with the issues above.
