Do the Catholic laity bear any responsibiity

Neither you nor I have the right to tell the Catholic Church what to do with their own members. As I have already posted I think they are going through the motions of a process where they think they are protecting the rights of their own. If Pell had been a Mormon leader he would not only have been removed from his position upon conviction in a civil court, he would have been automatically excommunicated by a church court. Some innocent people have been thrown out of the church this way. I think the Catholics are superior to the Mormons in this regard. Pell should be given what amounts to better ''due process" and not just suffer religious ramificationd by them just accepting civil authority being correct when it comes to conducting internal church affairs.