To the Editor:

Re “The Vatican’s Failure in the Abuse Scandal” (editorial, July 7):

There will be no meaningful changes in the Roman Catholic Church as it pertains to child sex abuse until Pope Francis invites the legal system into the cases by supporting global statutes of limitation reform.

But even that will not be enough. He must also publicly discipline the cardinals and bishops who relentlessly take church funds and use them to pay lobbyists to continue the cover-up by fighting such reform.

The pope’s mark on history will be a black one until he takes these simple but profound steps to steer the church back to integrity and goodness.

MARCI HAMILTON, PHILADELPHIA

The writer, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is chief executive and academic director of Child USA.