[Polycarp]

I shudder any time I agree even a little with this author...is he getting more reasonable at times, or am I losing what little sanity I had left in the midst of this crisis?

[robertpaulsen]

Priests and Bishops must be held accountable for their offenses. That said, I am getting tired of the "zero tolerance" solution to everything. It would be different if it worked, but it results in taking away rational decision making and punishing the smallest acts. Kids punished for drawing pictures of guns, employees disciplined for complimenting female coworkers, drivers arrested for one seed in the ashtray, this board is full of examples. Let's bring back accountability and hold people responsible for those decisions.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

like the right-wing attack on Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who, whatever his faults might have been, was still one of the best bishops in America.

Just when I started, oddly enough, to begin agreeing with Greeley, he goes and throws this t*** into the punchbowl and brings me back to reality.

[omega4412]

My minimal standard: zero tolerance for abusers, zero tolerance for those who tolerate abusers.

I guess this column proves that not even Father Greeley can be wrong 100% of the time.

[RnMomof7]

I find this author discusting most of the time. But a worthy read this time..

[nickcarraway]

Should their be zero tolerance for writers who talked of knowing about specific people causing these problems ten years and more ago, but never did anything?

[Jim Noble]

>>Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who, whatever his faults might have been, was still one of the best bishops in America<<

If stealing half a million dollars from little old ladies, who forgo necessities to put money in the collection plate, to pay off his boyfriend does not disqualify him as "one of the best"-

what must the worst be like?

[ELS]

If they had not torpedoed the plan submitted to them at St. John's abbey in 1986 (with Cardinal Bernard Law allegedly in lead of the opponents), this terrible scandal might have been avoided.

Hmmm...