Honest question, did any of the priests serve time for their molestation?
Numbers of priests have been incarcerated in the US for molesting children. One, Fr. John Geoghan, was murdered in Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts, apparently by a prisoner whom he had molested when the prisoner was a child.
Another particular notorioso was a Fr. Porter (IIRC he was of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts) who not only molested children but gruesomely murdered one by crucifixion. He escaped justice for a while by escaping Massachusetts but was tracked down working as an IBM executive in Minnesota, convicted and jailed.
There are certainly more. Those two will suffice. I know you are not Catholic but I know you to be a person of good will and I ask you to be scrupulous in your judgments as to the Church itself.
Contrary to the ongoing lame stream media anti-Catholic extravaganza and feeding frenzy, the molesters are not at all representative of our priests and they have been and will continue to be a substantial cross for Catholics to bear.
I have a little list of cowardly or complicit bishops whom I would gladly hand over to the Inquisition, especially if its former range of punishments were restored. Fortunately, most, like Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, are now dead. Roger Cardinal Mahoney and Bernard Cardinal Law are still alive. There are no popes on the list.
God bless you and yours.