This says it all about the Vatican's response to the rape and sodomy of children by priests:   "... another smoke and mirrors production" - Tom Doyle, O.P.

The very same strategy for not confronting the abuse and sexual exploitation of children, for obfuscation, for denial that American bishops adopted when I was chair of the SF review board now is in full operation at the Vatican: Talk, delay, say pious things publicly, hold out for the day when all the survivors are dead, the time when there will be no more voices to speak for the child victims of the abuse.  Then the clerics in the curia will be free to re-write the salacious history of priests violating every tenant of the Gospel and Beatitudes.

I can hear it now:  "What abuse?"  "The church has always acted with integrity and justice."  No one will hear the cry of the poor ... there will be no "reform and renewal."

I hope these pitiful excuses for priests in the Vatican burn in the hell of their own creation.