Regarding: "... the pontiff also called “prophetic” the men and women who urged the church for decades to face the problem."
- No doubt among the prophets are those catholics, christians, and men and women of goodwill (almost all of them of the laity) who work in the secular press (radio, tv, newspapers, magazines, internet news sites). Included also as prophets are the men and women who worked in law enforcement and would not let the 'father and his bishop' off the hook. Hats off to those few clerics who also blew the whistle and walked the path of prophet.
- The laity's involvement showed that the church is more than the hierarchical institution and that the laity must claim responsible for the hierarchical church as well as the domestic, parochial churches, and local or particular churches.