[HiTech RedNeck]

a) the Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly to reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care;

Bye bye to Dignity and bye bye to other open dissenters.

Hasn't this been standing "official" policy of the Roman Catholic Church for years? Will simply iterating it have any greater effect upon purging the scandals? In today's climate I couldn't see anything working short of unceremoniously kicking the offenders out. (And the same goes for discipline within Protestant or Orthodox churches.)

[Mike Fieschko]

Hasn't this been standing "official" policy of the Roman Catholic Church for years?

I suppose you could go through different statements made in the years, to take an example of dissent, since Fr Charles Curran publicly dissented from 1968 Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae.

What discipline has actually been imposed?

[SoothingDave]

Hasn't this been standing "official" policy of the Roman Catholic Church for years? Will simply iterating it have any greater effect upon purging the scandals?

It has been the policy of the Roman Catholic Church forever. What it has not been is the policy of the American Catholic Church. They have now been called on the carpet.

SD