[maryz]

that was based on American Bishop pressure - the Vatican wanted to fire them all.

Do you have inside sources? Or are you speculating? Or assuming that the Vatican would naturally want to do what the rest of want to?

[epluribus_2]

The news reports from the summit focused on tensions between Vatican hardliners who wanted the US to clean up or else and American bishops who pleaded for a chance to fix things themselves rather than having it imposed from Rome, avoiding further scandal. The US bishops don't get it, have'nt gotten it for a very long time. The Church is still a sacred place but not in my country, sad to say. Freaks like to say this happens all over but in Mexico, Poland, etc. Christ's church is living pretty close to home and would not permit this kind of heresy, let alone the other political kinds that we've suffered over here for my lifetime.