A comment someone wrote at the New York Times about the Catholic Church, also known as the world's largest child abuse organization.

The Catholic church operating in the United States is not on sovereign land. They operate within our country and as such they should be obeying the laws of this country.

We need to stop excusing horrible behavior... by spending time and energy debating whether or not women should be ordained or whether priests should be allowed to marry. While those are important issues, in my opinion they are not the crux of the matter.

The larger issue is that an organization operating within our country feels itself so superior that it doesn't need to follow the laws of our land...while taking money from the public and paying no taxes.

This is straight-out criminal behavior. Coverups everywhere you turn. Police not called and records hidden from public view for decades. So many lives ruined.

Prosecute every case....and if the Catholic Church doesn't obey the laws of the land, then the Church's ability to operate here should be shut down.

Prosecute every case of failure to report in a timely manner. Time and time again we have seen that these 'leaders' cannot police themselves. Why should anyone allow them to?

Would this behavior by any other organization be tolerated? I think not.