Questions--and a challenge--for all Catholics

What, exactly, if anything, do you plan to make clear to all your church leaders about all the physical and sexual abuse that has been shown--documented--to have taken place by some of these same "leaders" and then covered up by others?

What are you going to demand be done about it?

Will you require that more investigations be done so you and the rest of the world know exactly what has taken place, to date, as should happen, in fairness to the victims and so it doesn't get repeated elsewhere and/or to others?

Are you going to insist that any appropriate civil charges be filed in the courts if any of these priests, Cardinals or Bishops are shown to be guilty, as should happen?

Are you going to insist that some structures be put in place within the church to insure that these horrific abuses don't resume or ever get repeated, elsewhere, by the same or other, new abusers, in the future?

As Catholics, if you don't demand this of your clergy, it likely isn't going to happen. This Pope apologized recently for the abuses in Ireland, de facto admitting they happened, but hasn't addressed the 200 deaf children who were abused in Germany and yesterday, in his "Palm Sunday" address, suggested that you shouldn't listen to the "rumors" out in the world and suggested sweeping this under the rug, in effect.

As Catholics, aren't you tired of all these abuses?

Speaking for the rest of us out here in the world, we certainly are.

Please write your priest, Cardinal and Bishop and make clear it needs to stop.