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...abuse and of bishops to conceal these crimes. First, the Church must reaffirm its commitment to treating cases of sexual abuse as open civil matters rather than concealed ecclesiastical ones. For example, one of the reports in Ireland noted the Church hierarchy’s systematic failure to inform local authorities of felonies committed by priests. Priests need to be made aware of the appropriate means of reporting crimes to civil enforcement officials and mandated to do so in many cases. The obligations of confidentiality that all priests must uphold due to the sacred Church constraints on confessional...
...second reform involves providing bishops with more authority to handle cases of abuse. Constructing this extra layer of local defense against priestly indiscretions would demonstrate the Church’s commitment to ending sexual abuse in its dioceses. Bishops should be granted the authority to report cases of abuse on their own (without consulting the Church hierarchy), impose consequences such as mandated leaves of absence or counseling for priests guilty of felonies, recommend the defrocking of priests to the Pope, and speak out against transferring priests simply to conceal histories of abuse...
...plans aims to improve the performances of local educators by developing a culture of collaboration and evaluation...
...like Mandile are taking the long view - preaching civic engagement and educating people about candidates' positions and constitutional principles. "I don't like to focus entirely on November. We're going to lose early battles, and we have lost some," he says. "We're encouraging change at the very local level - in cities, in towns." The goal, he adds, is to "create a farm team, so that four or six years from now, we have people with experience" who can mount credible campaigns themselves. (See "Will Too Many Tea Partyers Spoil the Revolution...
...have to have a structure in place to support those people." Yet others believe building such structures could blunt a phenomenon whose power seems to flow from its inchoate nature. "Too much structure and organization is a negative thing when you're trying to work at the local level," says Mandile, who urges groups in his area to subdivide rather than balloon into something unwieldy...