SHEARING THE SHEEP, NOT LEADING THE FLOCK

Un-freaking-believable:

American bishops have made a wrongheaded decision to cut back their auditing of local dioceses' compliance with the church's new child protection measures. The bishops concluded that 90 percent of dioceses had been examined, found in compliance and can "self-report" next year. The auditors will focus on dioceses that are not carrying out the safeguards fully. This easing of scrutiny hardly jibes with pledges of ongoing accountability.

Well, there're only so many hours in the day and only so many parishioner offerings to pay for the really IMPORTANT work of the Church. Who's got time to check that kids aren't being molested by their priests when a much more urgent priority is identifying pro-choice politicians in the parish so they can be denied communion?