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I believe your lack of confidence in the Church's dealing with the scandal is based on your impression that the Vatican overruled American bishops. If I am correct in reading you,and if you are really interested than you need to know that you are not correct.

The arrogant,American bishops many of whom lost their faith years ago,if they ever had any,contrived,with the help of the american media, this little fiasco,with the intent of destroying the Church in America. They,with their armies of canon lawyers,chancery staff and USCCB bureaucrats certainly knew that the stupid policy they submitted was not workable from any level.

To cite one example,the policy defined abuse as "not necessarily physical or verbal". When you juxtapose that with the fact that "everything' was to be reported to civil authorities,and there was to be zero tolerance of whatever this ill defined everything is,you get an idea of just how ludicrous and audaciously ugly and mean spirited these evil men are.The Vatican did what it had to do and eventually this may be the turning point,known as the critical event that saved Christendom and Westerm Civilization.

The arrogant,American bishops many of whom lost their faith years ago,if they ever
had any,contrived,with the help of the american media, this little fiasco,with the intent
of destroying the Church in America.

That's been the sad view I've developed.
I guess the real "trip wire" was the recent announcement that the policies
announced at the Dallas meeting earlier this year (June?) were about to tbe
overhauled.

Listen, I'm for fairness to the accussed priests.
But as an average citizen...I do get a bit disturbed at the American bishops
(OK, seemingly) trying to rig the game in their favor.

Hey, I've even read one case out here in Los Angeles in which the accussed priest
had his indiscretion with a teenage female (age 16?) years ago, owed up to it within
his church community, left the priesthood and moved on. Should he get the same punishment as some
priest who seduced 12-year-old boys...well, call me unfair, but I don't think so.

Seriously, I take C.S. Lewis' view about "greater Christendom".....I feel nothing
by sympathy for the problems that the Catholics are dealing with now...and know
similar things go on in all parts of Christendom.