Church leaders embark on a bureaucratic filibuster

ONCE again the Catholic church embarks on a great bureaucratic filibuster – now it is going to audit the abuse of children by church employees.

It is not going to count all the abusers but will confine its activities to perpetrators who are still alive. Whether this refers to them being alive before the audit we can only speculate.

The projected time frame for this audit is two-and-a-half years, but will doubtless extend into a tribunal time frame and then double as they again run for cover behind the specious legal curtain that has served them so well in the past.