Why is the Catholic Church like this..?

“The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic clergy. The settlement, which experts said was the highest single payout by a diocese, brings Los Angeles’s cumulative total in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/archidiocese-los-angeles-abuse-settlement