The USCCB has absolutely no reason to exist,their only function seems to be to thwart Catholic teaching and Vatican directives.
I try to be charitable but the "Citizens Committee on Abuse" was appointed after the bishops knew the peril in which their "Pederast Protection Policy" had placed children,teen-age boys,faithful Catholics and the Church;their selections were unconscionable.
I understand that Bishop Gregory is featured in Time magazine,perhaps we should suggest,via letters to the editor,that the only way the bishops can regain some moral authority and trust is for the USCCB to ask every diocesan newspaper to print the interview with Dr. Reissman in its entirety and then abolish themselves as an act of contrition.Then Catholics in the diocese may become informed about how remiss in their shepherding our bishops generally were.
Bishop Gregory should also be besieged with letters asking for the names of the bishops on the selection committee. I am just sure that Flynn character from St. Paul/Minneapolis was on it.Pray he is not sent to Boston. Someone also indicated Pilarchyk(sp)was on it. I wouldn't doubt that,I have watched him preen around like some queen several times as he slyly turned issues that should have been settled to another USCCB committee to stonewall and sabotage.
More public exposure at every oppurtunity also might wake up the brain dead,brainwashed pew sitters to the danger of these crazy sex education classes they are always trying to get foisted on the school children.
Wouldn't it be refreshing,if in place of their half-a*sed apologies,that usually have nothing to do with anything that is wrong or current but just blah-blah they would tell the truth.Each bishop could cover the interview (with Reissman) with a note saying that they had erred because of lack of knowledge,or whatever,but they want Catholics to recognize that we were all hoodwinked,or as the case may be.
Seems to me that God,Who is Truth gave us a short cut,the Ten Commandments,to follow and make our burden lighter and that every time we forget the transcendent God and apply our little "mangod",fuzzy faith,experential,feeling based moral codes,we experience yet again,that "God's God and we're not".
On a high note, Boston "Catholic" Television has pre-empted 3 hours of EWTN in my area, from 9 AM to 12 Noon. Today I switched it on to find a priest preaching the beauty and technique of "Centering Prayer." He even used the word "mantra" when explaining it. I'm really seeing red over this and I'm going to write a letter to the priest in charge of the programming.