It's been four weeks since the beginning of the trial of the highest ranking U.S. Catholic Church leader charged with covering up the crimes of priests against children.
The main issue is not whether sex abuse occurred, as defense attorneys have pointed out, but how the Archdiocese of Philadelphia - Monsignor William Lynn in particular - handled the allegations against priests in the diocese.
The trial against Lynn and the alleged offending priest, the Rev. James Brennan, has already created a shake-up in Philadelphia's Catholic leadership, according to Catholic commentator and blogger Rocco Palmo.
"It's a shift you see once in 200 years," Palmo told CNN. Read more
The Anglican Church in North America has no special provisions related to sexual abuse of children and sexual harassment of adults in its canons. ACNA bishops may at a date in the not distant future find themselves on trial for their handling of sexual abuse and harassment allegations made against ACNA clergy and church workers.
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