Legally speaking is irrelevant.
If the Catholic church is going to take the moral high ground and tell others how to live and set itself up as some kind of example of moral living, it is more than relevant morally.
This business of blowing off sin in the lives of the priests with no more than a *everyone is perfect, the church is filled with sinners* is absolutely reprehensible.
I must be really really New Testament because I do not expect any church “leader” to be an example to others how to live. Their job is to make Jesus our example. Who does this teaching is wholly irrelevant to me. It’s the message being more important than the messenger in this case.
No it is relevant. Sure we want the Priests to be morally upright but having a playboy magazine would be nothing compared to doing something illegally, a sex crime with a minor for example that the Church and Archdiocese could be heavily sued for. That’s why some dioceses have suffered great financial losses, Philadelphia, Boston, LA.
Having porn is always wrong but if it were kiddie porn, that is criminal.