Greg, what are you talking about? It is well and widely documented that high church officials facilitated the rape of children. Many, many instances of priests being moved to other parishes where the parents of small children didn't know they were getting a pedophile foisted off on them. And all to avoid embarrassing the church. Yuck! The police are just a phone call away. Why hasn't it been church policy that law-breakers in the ranks are turned over to the law immediately?

Some of these priests have been brought to justice, but not many, and almost none of the bishops and cardinals who colluded with them.

I'd like to know why all affected governments haven't raided the church offices and hired a small army of lawyers to go through all the records.

I'd like to know why there is even mention of allowing the church to investigate and police itself. If the church were going to do an investigation, it should have been published -- with every detail -- a couple of years ago. Where is it?

I'd like to know why the church is attacking journalists who, in the absence of any credible official action, are trying to ferret out the truth for themselves. Why isn't the church working with those journalists to make the truth universally known so everyone can figure out how to deal with the mess?