“The Church hierarchy” is a bit of a generalization. There are plenty of places in the world (such as where I live) where calling the police is and has been the official policy for some time. It’s currently also the policy to immediately remove a priest from ministry if he’s been accused of abuse. So it isn’t as if the entire hierarchy of the Church has decided to pretend everything’s OK and brush sexual abuse under the rug. The reality is that in some regions, corruption is very widespread and pervasive, and in others, it’s almost nonexistent. No one’s praising the non-corrupt members of the hierarchy in the media, however, because they’re expected to not be corrupt and evil. Every priest and cleric I know is deeply wounded by and angry at the sexual abuse that is rife in the Church.