No, no surprise.  The Catholic bishops in India act just like Catholic bishops everywhere.  

Here is another opportunity for Pope Francis to act.  He could update Canon Law.  He could initiate an investigation into who else knew about the actions of the priest or those who were covering up the incident - including the bishop himself and the local head of the religious order of nuns who participated in the cover-up and farther up their reporting or coordinating internal church structures.  He could send someone to chew out the bishop, the nuns and the nuns superiors.

Isn't there some universal church requirement that dioceses have in place a program to prevent child sex abuse and some outline of how such an incident would be handled?  Does this diocese have such a plan?  If not, why not and something else the pontiff should address.

We all know that "zero tolerance" in the Church is not defined and doesn't mean what we think it means.  I wonder what it means this time?