I'm still not getting this.
What are these people looking for?
How is the Bishop "not complying"?
I had to do one of these "Protecting God's children" seminars.
The point of the videos was simply, people who volunteer could be child molesters. It was no different than the "Stranger Danger" videos that anyone with kids have seen.
The only incident described with a Priest was a young woman. And the problem is clearly homosexual priests which was not addressed.
Is this the problem that the good Bishop is running into?
The USCCB is a bureaucracy with all the attendant detritus that brings. It is fat with functionaries who oversee the landscape and prepare documents so that the Bishops can attend to "other more important things". The problem is, the documents these people prepare (and some of these people are incredibly heterodox) are often stamped as "Gospel" (witness some of the judgements on Catechetics books and on the issue of homosexuality and how it should be dealt with in a Diocese).
Bishop Bruskewitz is a Good Shepherd. He looks after his own flock and cannot understand why he should be interested in items that have no bearing to their souls. That is what Bruskewitz is concerned about and only that: souls.
I posit that if more Bishops acted as this Bishop does (and there are more coming along little by little), the USCCB will die of its own weight, the NAB translations will become obsolete, the RSV will return and any meeting held to discuss diocesan issues will be done in a solitary monastery where gruel is served instead of in a 5 star hotel for four days with 350 in attendance.
My "maxims" for any meeting is this: hold meetings in rooms without chairs and where temperatures are maintained at or near 60 degrees. It is amazing how quickly things get done!
Frank