Because I live in New Mexico, I know that the Catholic Church tried to do something about the pedophiles in the Church. Twenty five years before it all became national news we were dealing with them because this is where they were sent to rehabilitate.
They didn’t ignore them, on the advice of psychiatrists, they tried to heal them.
While most parishes are now doing things to make sure that it doesn’t happen again, my parish and diocese have been doing those things since its inception.
I always thought it was interesting that the Church was castigated for 'not doing anything', when they DID. It's just that pedophiles and sexual abusers cannot be 'healed', even though the psychiatrists and psychologists TOLD the Dioceses that these priests WERE healed. Why were these medical folks never called to account for their part in all this? I never heard ONE person in the media say anything negative about the counseling community's role. All the blame went on the Dioceses for returning these men to their positions in Parishes, even though they'd be told that it was OK to do so.