Both the President and Vice President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops find themselves embroiled in the church’s sex abuse scandal. Vice President Francis Cardinal George has come under heavy fire for not removing an abusing priest when he learned of the abuse. President William Skylstad, Bishop of the beleaguered Spokane Diocese, has been accused of the sexual abuse of a woman 40 years ago. Skylstad has protested his innocence and George has apologized for not doing more to prevent abuse.
Both men have been asked to step down from their posts. Neither seem likely to do so, however.