"Bishops are above the law. They don't get laicized."
You are quite right. Bishop Dupre is another case in point...
http://www.sweenytod.com/rno/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=968
Dupre is another good example of what I meant when I said that bishops are above the law.
I cannot name one instance where any American bishop has been laicized following exposure for such things as grand theft, pedophilia, public sodomite staus. Not to mention such things as open defiance of papal directives, vandalism of church property, violation of canon law norms and just plain heresy.
A prominant midwestern archbishop, a self admitted theif and sodomite, is still featured in "catholic" magazines and confirming kids.
These guys and the reprobate bishops (almost all of our bishops) who protect and coddle them are causing many to lose their faith and inspire disgust in those of us who remain.