text: "...but al this speaks volumes to me...."
  
  For me, too.  Of course, very diocese, national church, as it were, deals with it differently. The diocesan responses in the Canadian church are impressive. Also in Germany and UK, where I was recently, generally good. Fortunately, too, all psychiatrists are on board on how to deal with sexual abuse of minors, especially since late 1980's. Before that, they were divided. All this is good. Plus, lay involvement at all levels of the CC.  Australia, however, baffles me. Mary Mac Killop is so well known in the Australian church (relatively small, only 5 and a half million/ 25% of country), her schools are everywhere, and her excommunication well known. What were the bishops there thinking of when they got wind of abuse in their institutions, knowing St. Mary Mac Killop's story (excommunicated for exposing abuse), so well known in Australian Catholicism? The whole mess baffles me. At times I wonder about a bishop's IQ. God! They just don't get it!