That's punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. All of that real estate was bought and paid for by the sweat of real, live, working Catholic laypeople. Taking it hurts Joe the plumber and Teresa the secretary down the street and their kids, who will have neither a parish nor a school nearby, instead of having one that their parents helped to build. Joe and Teresa never molested anyone, and neither did their kids.
some of the bishops have their asses parked in a jail cell
On the other hand, this is punishing the guilty for the crimes of the guilty, and I haven't the slightest problem with it. (All the legal niceties having been followed, of course.)
Fact of the matter is, Campion, unless Joe and Theresa are themselves into pedophilia...they have no church, no church school and no parish to send their children to. Would you allow a child of yours anywhere near roman catholic facility unchaperoned by a family member? And if the child requires a chaperone, why allow him/her there in the first place?
It's painfully obvious that hierarchs like Mahony have been enablers, aiders and abetters, and most likely practitioners of and participants in pedophilia for decades. The Roman Catholic Church was hi-jacked by leftist homosexuals many decades ago and transformed into a vehicle and safe haven for man-boy sex preying upon innocent young children entrusted to them by naive parents. Obviously the hierarchs care nothing for the church message or mission. They joke about it behind parishoners backs while they take their money and molest their children. They are very far from God. They are glorified pimps. Parishoners that continue supporting them are not only suckers, they are accessories to the crime of pedophilia.
My advice would be to seek the true church of God.