text: Once again, the old "but everybody else s doing it..."" card is played.  It didn't work the first time, and doesn't now.    The problem is that this immediately gets to the core of that great double standard in the church,
  
  If the bishops have any of the special charisms they claim, then one must assume they know the difference from right and wrong, and will always choose right over wrong.  Oh, but there will always be individuals, one might argue.  Perhaps, but aren't we also told that when bishops act in concert, they cannot be wrong, for Jesus protects His church?
  
  The simple truth is that the bishops ARE very much acting in concert here.  It's not an accident, nor an individual's choice, that bishops have not accepted accountability.  Rather, that's a worldwide choice by ALL of them to adopt a position that has the effect to choose themselves and their positions, over children.  What's happening in India is so predictable, so normal now, that we already know how it turns out...