From Dr. Ed Peters:The rules aren't changing, they're being applied.

And many of us would agree that it's high time!

Maybe it's just me, but I sense today a rather different mood among American bishops facing outlandish behavior by their clergy; problem-priest cases seem much less likely now to just drift along year after year in unresolved, canonically ambiguous states. Ecclesiastical justice is never swift, of course, but at last its wheels seem to be turning again. The latest evidence for this comes from a diocese in Forida. See: http://www.canonlaw.info/2006/08/rules-arent-changing-theyre-being.html