text: One of the implications that we can draw from this article is the absolute necessity for the reporting of child abuse to CIVIL authorities - there should also be explicit changes in canon law that demands that hierarchs in the church to refer these allegations to civil authorities, avoiding the sheltering of criminals under canon law. 
  
  Remaining silent about sexual assaults on especially children because of considerations of the confessional, or maintaining strict obedience from priests not to reveal what they know is archaic, unjust, and a violation of human rights.
  
  The Catholic Church has proved over and over again that it is either incapable or unwilling to police, supervise, and case manage these sexual predators - whom the church has given places of esteem in the Catholic community, many times sheltering the predator by shifting him from parish to parish - which does nothing but provide fresh victims for these predators to exploit.