Which is pretty amazing by itself. Some of the things said there are pretty amazing too:
Law assured the clerics at the end of the session that the policy is ``canonically correct'' - meaning under church law it is acceptable to suspend an active priest pending an investigation into abuse.But priests have not only been removed from public ministry, which is technically not a punishment; they have also been deprived of office (that is, removed as pastors), deprived of reputation, ordered out of their residences, and told not to wear clerical dress or identify themselves as clergy. It's hard to believe that all of those measures can legitimately be imposed without a guilty verdict.
