text: Regarding: "While dioceses may not monitor former abusive priests, concerned Catholics and other citizens may take some steps to safeguard their children."
  - While not a complete solution, catholics and others of good will are indeed a necessary step or path to preventing the rape of children and molestation of young people.
  - Waiting for the archbishop to do something just because he is well, the chief pastor, is a mistake.  The church is all of us and all of us are responsible to find solutions and remedies even those which do not depend on the institutional church and her hierarchy.
  - There is no reason that legislation can not be proposed that will remedy this serious lapse in tracking church men and some church women who have harmed children and young people. There is no reason why men and women of good will need to wait for the bishop.
  - Catholic Conference of Illinois should be defunded by catholics for it represents only bishops of Illinois.