In recent decades, the Vatican
apparatus has found the means to reach deep into the ranks of the
faithful to banish, condemn, excommunicate and otherwise impose
disciplines on those who advanced a discordant idea or advocated for the
wrong cause or dared to question the exclusion of women from any
meaningful level of decision-making within the church.
Yet, more than 30 years after the first national exposé of the sex abuse crisis ran in the pages of NCR, we are still waiting for a clear, transparent and workable system for getting rid of bishops who ignore, abet or cover up crimes against the community's children or fail to abide by rudimentary cautions and procedures for accountability.
http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-new-law-bishops-raises-many-questions
Yet, more than 30 years after the first national exposé of the sex abuse crisis ran in the pages of NCR, we are still waiting for a clear, transparent and workable system for getting rid of bishops who ignore, abet or cover up crimes against the community's children or fail to abide by rudimentary cautions and procedures for accountability.
http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-new-law-bishops-raises-many-questions