[Just mythoughts]

The Vatican newspaper said: "There was no cover-up in the case of Father Murphy." The Vatican said earlier he was not disciplined because church laws do not require automatic punishment.

NEWS flash.... IF they think they are helping their cause because they had NO laws requiring automatic punishment then they are in a very sorry state of affairs... Blaming media is NOT going to play.

[lastchance]

I agree we should always just automatically punish somebody on the basis of accusations. That will keep things neat.

Remember there was no canonical trial for the priest. And there is a statute of limitations in canon law.

The request for laicizing the priest was made long after the events in question, long after the accusations came to light and long after it would have done anything to protect any children from harm.

[RobbyS]

And you think that punishment ought to be automatic?