UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage

William D. Lindsey

In what I posted earlier today about Pope Francis’s recent statement that a bishop who moves a priest to another parish when a case of pedophilia is discovered is irresponsible man and should resign, I stated,

But, of course, if that statement is to have teeth, then the Vatican needs to get cracking right away and do everything it can to assure that such bishops do resign. Which would make for a huge number of episcopal sees for the Vatican to fill down the road from the crop of resignations . . . .

And then I referred to the case of Bishop Arulappan Amalraj of Ootacamund, India, who recently placed Father Joseph Jeyapaul back in ministry — with Vatican approval — though Jeyapaul has been convicted of sexually assaulting a teenaged girl in Minnesota.

Here’s an excerpt from the very important response…