[JoeFromCA]

This is a small step in the right direction. When an entity, even the holy Roman Catholic church, commits a crime, the state imposes punishment through the judicial system. Hopefully we'll see more of these prosecutions.

[crystalk]

But did the CHURCH commit the crime, or just its individual employees? If these wrongs had been done by employees of Wal-Mart or General Electric, could those companies be sued?

[Domestic Church]

The state has a right to impose punishment but oversight is a very, very bad precedent that brings to mind the KGB infiltration of the Russian Orthodox Church under communism and the patriot catholic church in China. Can you picture this set up under the possibility of a Hillary Clinton Whitehouse?! Think about the Sacrament of Penance in areas being possibly mutated into a socialist tool.