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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.”

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What's "strange" about that? Keating is right, and Luther was right about lay involvement confronting corruption in the Church in his time.

And laymen are (in case you hadn't noticed) having a hard time thinking of the bishops (as a whole) as arbiters of morality after covering up criminality.

The American bishops didn't even bother issuing a statement on the Iraq War, they're so compromised.