Saving a person's life: excommunication.
Molesting a child: a slap on the wrist and re-assignment.
The Catholic Church, everybody!
When you people totally abandon your intellectual honesty and integrity, is there like a sucking feeling, or is it more like a part of your mind is being cut out?
What about the statement made was untrue, misleading, exaggerative, or anything that indicates any sort of lapse in integrity at all? And why have you taken a very realistic criticism of the church as something that warrants a personal assault in response? Is it the frustration of feeling accountable for your church's hypocrisies or maybe a defense mechanism for not being able to defend its actions while maintaining your own integrity and especially intellectual honesty?
The bishop was wrong here, and the bishops who covered up sexual abuse cases were in the wrong then. These people deserve harsh rebuke and criticism, but they shouldn't be used to bludgeon the entire Catholic Church.
This case was quite surprising though considering the modern Church usually reserves excommunication only for people who remain faithful to traditional Catholicism.
