Seems like a very frightening position to be in. If you want the church to continue offering you salvation, you have to turn a blind eye to a lot of cruelty (something that, particularly when it comes to cruelty against children, Jesus was really clear on the consequences of).

Believing that the organization which controls your access to divine grace demands in payment that you damn your soul by excusing all this... that's a pretty wretched and unhappy spot to sit in, which probably explains why a lot of Catholics just try really hard to believe that the abuses aren't happening. Wishing that was true is almost as good as having it actually be true, right? Right? =/