text: I have a number of concerns about the article.  While the concept of openness and transparency is admirable, this problem cannot be solved by "after the fact transparency."
  
  Catholic laity has been calling for accountability for bishops since at least 2002.  I would suggest we MIGHT see new direction, but only after all the involved bishops have been allowed to die off. Living out their years in a relatively comfortable retirement.  This approach parallels the decreases in numbers that drew the gasps in that diocese.  
  
  So I think it unreasonable to expect the laity to get engaged, volunteer, work (etc), to make thing right, when they are and long have been held at bay until there is almost nothing left that can be done.  Cleaning up after unrepentant and sometimes almost arrogant bishops is not what will excite people.
  
  I get the problem, and the need.  But until bishops hand the church over to the laity, I see little hope for change.