text: Maybe ... all priests, but especially hierarchs, have sworn oaths to protect the church, which they interpret as any attempt to hold them accountable by the People or the civil courts.  Almost identical to the religious ethic and ideology which allows ISIS to murder with abandon.  Hierarchs believe that the rules and laws that govern the rest of us, don't apply to them.  Literally, hierarchs believe they are above the law.  Nothing will change until Catholics completely dismantle the way we do priesthood.
  
  I don't know Pell, but you have to hand it to him going back to Australia to face justice instead of hiding behind his diplomatic immunity:  either Pell is deluded about his innocence [most likely], or he was placed under obedience to face Australian justice by the pope.