Catholic Hypocrisy on "Protect Religious Freedom"

I see yard signs, usually at Catholic churches that state "Protect Religious Freedom".  The idea that President Obama isn't protecting "religious freedom" is another lie by rightwingers because they are upset that women may (I repeat may) get contraception from their insurance company health care policy.  Details on President Obama's protection of Religious Freedom is here--

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/obama-contraception-religion_b_1766496.html

Now, this is what irritates me.  When Catholic priests were sexually abusing boys for decades, the Catholic Church hierarchy was silent.  They would shuffle the pedophiles around from town to town if the perverted priest got caught.  And all the Catholic Church tried to due was cover up the crimes of their pedophile priests.

Here is a breakdown of Catholic priest pedophilia--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_by_country

So, it wasn't just the USA and it was probably more than the 5% they want us to believe.  Here is a link to over 600 children sexually abused by Catholic priests in Australia.  http://twocircles.net/2012sep23/australian_church_admits_600_child_abuse_cases.html

Here is a link to a NYT database on Catholic priest sexual abuse--

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church_sex_abuse_cases/index.html

If the Catholic hierarchy was interested in the better good of society, they would have dealt with their perverted priests a long time ago.  They were forced to deal with them (to a certain extent) by secular society.  The Catholic hierarchy was afraid of lawsuits and payments to the victims of crimes.  They love money over people.  Yet, they want us to believe their "religious freedoms" are under attack when they are not.  This is hypocrisy at its highest point and they should be ashamed.