Reply #131: Oh, don't be so smug.

[Lindacooks]

Here's the truth about those "audits":

The new procedure "essentially ends what already minimal oversight remained" by replacing on-site visits with "self-reporting" on how bishops are handling molestation cases, SNAP claims.

In 2005 and beyond, according to the bishops' new plan, on-site audits will only take place in dioceses that failed audits in 2004. Roughly 90% of the dioceses passed in 2003.

"Anyway you 'spin' it, that is a stark backtracking from an important pledge," SNAP says. "The end result: we'll all just have to take bishops at their word that they are living up to the Charter. No outside person or body will be able to ascertain whether this is in fact true. We're basically back to square one, where we have no choice but to trust in many of the same men whose repeated deceit and misconduct led to the molestation of thousands of innocent Catholic youngsters."

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_press_releases/2004_press_releases/121304_snap_votf_address_audits.htm

This is exactly like the fox guarding the henhouse. Self reported audits in a corrupt institution have no credibility.

Edited to add link.