Quis custodit

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Mar 04, 2005

As the editor noted yesterday, citing John Allen's story in the National Catholic Reporter,the Vatican has been named as defendant in an American sex-abuse lawsuit. The plaintiff argues that Vatican officials failed to exercise proper supervision over US bishops.

Mark Chopko, attorney for the US bishops' conference, comments:

"The idea that the Holy See is managing directly all these activities of the church is not well-taken," he said. "Supervision of clergy is vested directly with the local bishops, and nowhere else."

True. But who’s in charge of supervising the bishops?