I don't have much to add to the news about the ...

...John Jay report that hasn't been talked about pretty thoroughly. I was amazed when I read this good solid lie in the local paper: "The review board said neither celibacy nor gay priests caused the scandal, but both issues needed to be examined."

If my reading of the report is accurate, what it actually said was that a mere homosexual orientation was not the problem--which is, of course, simply Catholic teaching. It doesn't matter what your temptations are. It matters how you respond to them. So a faithful celibate priest who does not act on his temptations is, among other things, not going to rape a kid. However, a priest who does give in to temptation is a problem and the statistics show that 80% of the victims were adolescent males who were abused by priests who not only were homosexually orientated, but who acted on that orientation and, in the case of a great many of them, celebrated and even flaunted it. And to pretend otherwise is simply a loud, thumping, brazen LIE.

As to the rest, my first recommendation is simply that bishops such as Howard Hubbard hold themselves to the same standard they require of their priests and that, failing that, their brother bishops loudly rebuke them for their rank hypocrisy. I'd also say that the faithful have every right to make life extremely uncomfortable for men like Hubbard should they choose to ignore the policies they themselves have instituted for others. And most of all, may God bless Caesar as he does his God-given job.