Regarding: "Ending his off-the-cuff remarks, Francis thanked the pontifical commission for their efforts and referred to the work left to be done to make sure the Vatican is responding to clergy sexual abuse. “Without you who brought the thing off the ground it would have been impossible to do what we have done and to do what we must still do in the [Roman] Curia,” he told them."
- It is clear that ArchbFrancis is speaking of the whole church for the church. However words and phrases such as 'Vatican' or 'roman curia' too easily allow a narrow view that the decisions and work apply only to the Vatican City State, meaning that 'the church' or the 'holy see' are exculpated from failures of the 'Vatican' and of the 'roman curia', failures which are consequent of the scandal of episcopal secrecy which is subsequent to the rape of children and molestation of young people by clerics.
- Better to add to those words and phrases such appositive expressions clearly inclusive of the whole church.