It appears “there was somebody [who] dropped the ball.”

Bishop Edward Scharfenberger said, “we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer.”

"I continue to be deeply concerned about the victims and the ongoing pain and suffering they endure," Bishop Zubik said in the letter, read at all Masses.

“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”

Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.

“We join with all those demanding the end of a culture that ignores or tolerates sexual abuse of Catholic sisters or any other adult or minor perpetrated by those in positions of trust in the church community.”