I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.