text: Buster (et al.)  
  To begin, there is NO way, under American or any other known system of justice, to properly serve "justice" for the loss of a limb, one's innocence, or even pain.  Like it or not, we've settled on a system where the best we can do is to offer money or property.  That's far from perfect, but  the usual alternative is "an eye for an eye..."  So if the complaint is that money isn't appropriate, you're probably right.  Alas, nobody has yet found a better solution.
  
  As to complaints that priests haven't had their day in court, the VAST majority of the blame there is the bishops.  They've done all they could to keep cases OUT of the courts, and all too sadly, they did that on the backs of the victims and their families.  That's also a scandal.
  
  Finally, there's this.  At the end of the day, bishops ARE supposed to be better: moral leaders, knights for justice, fonts of compassion, etc.  They've fallen short on every level. Their refusal to accept accountability says it all.