John Mallon of Peter's Voice has this to say about the loss of faith being experienced by American brethren following the recent scandals:

If every priest, God forbid, were on the road to hell, it would still remain my responsibility not to throw in the towel and follow them there; but rather to get my soul to heaven by clinging to Christ. No one else is responsible for my salvation. I depend on priests for the sacraments to help me get there but the rest is up to me. Jesus and me. If a priest is a criminal or a pervert or a bad preacher or just plain ugly, I don't just leave and go to some other Church. Catholics don't do that. I'm staying where the Eucharist is. Other Christian churches don't believe what we Catholics do about the Eucharist.