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Coleridge states that he has no right to intrude into the internal forum.  I think that is debatable (and a cop out), and SHOULD be debated within the church, when it comes to bishops and their priests.  Most certainly those bishops seem all too often to tell the laity what THEY should do…  Setting even that aside however, this scandal is really about the complete moral failure of the bishops to act, once they knew.  That failure is compounded by their ongoing refusal to adopt either institutional, or personal accountability.  So when a business leader falls on his sword to protect the company, even if the scandal wasn’t his personally, the bishops are exposed as being frauds at the deepest of personal and professional levels. The businessman is showing a courage the bishops lack, and a concern for his employees, his customers, and his shareholders.  The bishops are exhibiting the exact opposite, on every level.  And they do that by choice.