[maryz]

I think that if the list was refined to reflect legitimate immoral,unethical or illegal activity and the cover up of same,the actual number "problem bishops" would be reduced to about 40 or 50 at most.

I don't think I understand what you're saying here.

[saradippity]

I believe what I was trying to say is that the figure heading the stories is "two thirds of the bishops were involved in cover-ups",is exaggerated.It could be designed to make Catholics despair that the Church can be mended and serve to topple the Catholic Church in America and set the stage for their own version of church."The church of the New and Different Vision".

I read all of the study and felt that some bishops were included wrongly.The incidents or complaints were without any merit,and many were simply lacking information necessary to detetermine anything,some were understandable by virtue of the need for establishing facts,some were very questionable with regards to who knew what and when did they know it and a couple could have been attributable to an unwillingness to believe something so horrific about someone they may have found to be an excellent priest.Those are the kinds of errors,mistakes,misinterpretations and misunderstandings that each and every human being will make.They are not mortal sins or crimes.

Since the consequences of highly exaggerated numbers are grave,I think we need to start looking at the actual number of culpable bishops and focus on getting them to resign or having them removed.Good orthodox Catholics across the country need to work together to clean up our own diocese and then focus on getting all the disreputable,sinful bishops who have lost their morals and their faith out.If we are going to use our resources and take a scatter gun approach to this we will knock out some very good men as well as the Catholic Church in America. Thats why its the time to get a realistic number of real offenders. I am taking a stab at it by saying there are probably 25,whose actions have been so opprobrious that should be defrocked and in some cases turned over to the legal system and another 20 or so that need to be scrutinized very carefully.I threw that number out to quash an over alarmist reaction while recognizing that we do have a grave problem that must be dealt with almost immediately.