Yet another Catholic Priest being protected

I swear I'm not trying to find these stories.

Word out this morning, just within the last hour, that yet another Catholic Priest accused of "sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota is working in his home diocese in India and has no plans to return to the U.S. to face the courts, he and his bishop told The Associated Press on Monday."

I won't harp on this. I only want to say, again, we need a few things to happen here:

--We need for the Catholic Church to stop stalling and protecting any priests accused of sexual abuse or physical abuse of any parishoners;

--We need for the church to examine these cases, see if there is any merit to them and, if so, see if anyone is guilty of any misconduct;

--If anyone is found guilty of misconduct, they should be turned over to the appropriate authorities;

--Finally, the church needs to put in place structures within the organization so these things get reported, if they should happen, and so they are much less likely to happen and continue to be repeated as they have been now for decades.

It needs to stop and the Catholic Church, from the Vatican out, across the world, needs to see to it that it does.

What's ironic is that the church studied the sexual abuse issues in 2002 through the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

They didn't do much, apparently, if anything with the information but they studied, by golly.

To the Catholic Church: please do these simple, right things.

To Catholics: appeal to your priests, bishops, cardinals and your pope to see to it the children are protected first and last.