Why Can Charges Be Brought against American Bishops and Cardinals under Canon Law?
By Vinnie Nauheimer Voice from the Desert March 1, 2008 http://reform-network.net/?p=1451 Several years ago my family was disparaged from the pulpit by the Vicar of Priest Personnel after we filed a lawsuit against a predator priest. The Vicar got up and from the pulpit declared that ours was the first complaint of this type against the priest and told the parishioners that the suit was all about money. He made that statement even though he had been in the parish quietly fixing a similar incident with another family a year earlier before vehemently decrying our accusations. In short, this man lied from the pulpit. This is all part of the public record of the Westchester Grand Jury Report investigating clergy abuse. Being in a state of shock and too naive at the time to file a slander suit, we did nothing. However, public humiliation and abuse of that magnitude is not easily forgotten. It seemed to me that a bureaucracy like the Catholic Church that has laws for everything, should have
