text: Quite true. We have no comparative study (to my knowledge) to judge whether the bishops are better (more proactive) than the rest of society. According to Chowdhury, exploitation of children is so widespread in Indian society that one shouldn't be surprised it taints the church, too. But it shouldn't. Unlike Hindus who believe an individual, an abused child, will have many lifetimes/reincarnations to work out inflicted evil, we Catholic Christians believe we pass this way only once. There are no multiple lives or reincarnations on earth. All the more to make zero tolerance an absolute.