I think you're not reading me carefully enough, Ed. I said above, "As the employer of these individuals [priests], of course the church must bear financial responsibility." I also stated that in the U.S., 74 percent of dioceses provided at least some treatment for victims of child molestation by priests. That leaves 26 percent who did not provide treatment as of 2004, and I think that's terrible. The 2002 guidelines issued in the U.S. require dioceses to provide treatment, so I hope the compliance rate is now closer to 100 percent.

I think that in many places in the U.S. Catholic Church, the bishops listened to their lawyers above everything else. Not only in the child molestation scandal, but also in other matters, all too often bishops listened to their legal and financial advisors instead of doing what was right and compassionate. That has been a great source of frustration and disillusion to many of us in leadership positions in the Catholic Church. I think the bishops are doing better now, but I'm not convinced they've turned around completely.

Q, you say, "Only the 20 or so bodies in the burial vault have been found." Are you referring to the 1975 discovery of bones by ten-year-old boys, or has the vault been rediscovered in the last few weeks?

-Joe-