CAELew, the issue has not been addressed at all. We have an example here in Ireland, where the resignation of the Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh, was accepted on the day of his 75th birthday. The background went back to the early 1970's  when he was a priest; Canon Lawyer and Private Secretary to his bishop. A young 14 year old boy, Brendan Boland , made a abuse complaint against the most notorious clerical abusers that Ireland has known; Brendan Smyth. The pattern had been established since he was about 10 years of age. Brady was dispatched by his bishop to carry out a Canonical Inquiry with Brendan. His father was not allowed into the inquiry room. I have previously listed the questions here on the NCR from Brendan's own book "Sworn to Silence". Brady's questioning approach was to implicate Brendan himself as a guilty participant. Can I just say it was so sickening to read, that Brady should have been challenged before the Court of Human Rights.