Protecting childrenPeter Saunders may well have been an “uncomfortable” member of the Vatican’s child safeguarding commission, but his removal from it is no mere public relations disaster (View From Rome, 13 February). At a time when the Church has lost the imagination of its people (how else does one explain the fact that a mere 15 per cent of baptised Catholics in the United Kingdom attend Sunday Mass with any regularity), the bishops must understand that the abuse crisis has to be faced and examined with complete openness, honesty and accountability. If it is not dealt with in this way, all our current much-needed initiatives – especially the Holy Father’s Year of Mercy and the New Evangelisation project – will have no more lasting value than the sca