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Like the popular press, Keating choose to ignore the real problem, gay priests.

How do you know? He was only heading this thing up for less than a year.

The primary problem was bishops covering up criminal activity and not coming clean on which priests in their dioceses were abusers.

Besides, the commission was not hired to give moral admonitions to the USCCB; its charter was to determine which bishops were adhering to guidelines the bishops themselves had agreed to.

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He had his chance. Instead, he made strange statements and gave "moral admonitions":



“Remember, it was Martin Luther who suggested early in his efforts that the lay community get involved in reforming the Church so there would not be a collapse of faith by the faithful,” Keating said, answering critics who say laity boards should not seek removal of bishops.

“Unfortunately, in retrospective, Martin Luther was right,” he said. “Just think what positively could have occurred if lay people in the 16th and 15th centuries had been involved. None of us is a theologian, and every one of us [on the board] recognizes the authority of those who speak for the religious part of the Church. But the human part needs more lay involvement, to make sure these types of calamities don’t occur again.”