For reference, here is the membership of the Council of Nine Ringwraiths (at least four of these are already enmeshed in the sexual abuse investigation, that I know of):
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Council of Cardinal Advisers
The Council consists of 9 Cardinals plus Marcello Semeraro, who is a Bishop rather than a Cardinal, and who serves as Secretary for the group.
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, SDB, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (coordinator)
Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile
Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay
Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa
Seán Patrick O'Malley OFM Cap, Archbishop of Boston- Pietro Parolin, Cardinal Secretary of State
George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy
The group is coordinated by Cardinal Maradiaga.[3] The group's secretary is Marcello Semeraro, Bishop of Albano. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, was not among the original eight members, but attended the meetings regularly and in July 2014 was confirmed by the Vatican press office as a ninth member of the Council.[4]
at least four of these are already enmeshed in the sexual abuse investigation, that I know ofMake that five (Maradiaga, O'Malley, Parolin, Pell, Errázuriz Ossa)--I just read up on Errázuriz Ossa: "During his time as cardinal, Errázuriz refused to meet with those who claimed to have been abused by clergymen. He refused public calls for an investigation of Father Fernando Karadima and the issue of clergy sexual abuse more generally. In 2010, Father Fernando was found by Chilean court and church investigations to have been an abuser and was forced into retirement.[14] In court testimony, Errázuriz asserted that he did not act on allegations he received because he believed them to be untrue. In 2015 documents published in Chile showed that Errázuriz and Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello tried to prevent Juan Carlos Cruz, one of Chile's best known survivors of clerical abuse, from being nominated to the Vatican's newly established Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.[15][16] "
