When will bishops be held accountable?

FR Sean McDonagh (Letters, Dec 3) rightly calls for the media to be held accountable.

He will have no objection, then, to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church being held accountable for the crime of covering up clerical child abuse.

While it may be true that a relatively small number of priests raped children, these episodes took place on a global scale. Thus the number of bishops who knew of the abuse and took part in covering it up extends to a much larger number.