Is anything changing with respect to the Catholic Church and child sex abuse?

The public messaging was that the reign of Pope Francis was going to mean that the Catholic Church was going to start confronting its child sex abuse scandals head on, rather than the way it has usually confronted them: face down and ass up.

Despite this, new scandals and revelations keep appearing with some regularity. Today, I saw a story about a Catholic priest at the Cathedral of Newcastle in England killing himself in 2021 after coming under police investigation for child sexual...

Is anything changing with respect to the Catholic Church and child sex abuse?