The good news is that the Vatican IS acting, as it should.  The use of a canonical trial is refreshing to see. 

The bad news is that once again, it would appear that the action is triggered when a bishop himself is the abuser.  I still think the church needs to wheel out these SAME big guns and use them for those bishops, who, while they themselves may not have abused,  have shielded abusers, and mistreated the abused.  Until that day comes, I will continue to believe that church leaders still don't understand the magnitude of this mess, or worse, that they still place their own protection as a higher priority than anybody else's.

I also hope that if/when that trial actually takes place, the church can be more transparent than we've seen in the past.  It's long past time for the kind of secrecy we've seen in the past, for that only aggravates the trust issues in the church.  So they've got an opportunity here: let's see what they do with it.