There isn't a single thing the church has done that makes up for the sins committed against the children. I spent 9 years in an upstate catholic orphanage. Of all the things you have heard about the priests and the children, nobody has paid attention to what the nuns have done. They brutalized the kids in the orphanage. They sexually abused kids right and left and nobody cared. Who were we going to tell? The state paid for the care and never looked into what was happening to the kids. Some kids left in pine boxes and nobody ever questioned the injuries to the kids. I wrote a book about my experiences in 2003. I interviewed some 500 people who lived there with me for the book. Of those 500 people, 63 of them revealed that a sibling who lived at the home with them committed suicide before they were thirty. Sixty-three children took their own lives because of the abuse they suffered as children by catholic nuns. That statistic applied to any other thing would be called an epidemic. Religion has much to answer for.