Register senior editor Matthew Bunson, who is attending this week’s meeting, said in his report on the first day’s proceedings that the Vatican directive Monday came as a “complete surprise to virtually all of the bishops” and that he saw it as a “deliberate act of humiliation” of the U.S. episcopate “at a time when they are trying in good faith to grapple with the greatest crisis in the history of American Catholicism.”
Bergoglio has given them an excuse for a coverup. Not likely to sit well with the U. S. Attorneys in Pittsburgh and Buffalo who’ve initiated a nation wide investigation of sex abuse and obstruction of justice in the RC Church.