“However, I have also noted that in general, when a member of the clergy is found to be in sexual sin of any kind, it usually results in having their credentials revoked, something the Catholic church does not do”.
You seem to be forgetting about Jimmy Swaggart who got on national TV and started crying when it was found out he had been running around with prostitutes. Last time I looked the Jimmy Swaggart ministries are alive and well and doing good.
Or how about Ted Haggard, the protestant preacher that had thousands and thousands of followers in the Denver area. He was found out to be snorting crack and having homosexual sex with his boyfriends, but last time I checked he was still preaching.
And let’s not forget Eddie Lee Long,the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in Georgia. Accused of sodomite sex with countless young male members of his parish. When the story broke pastor Eddie told them all to go to hell and kept on preaching.
Good post, but no answer?