"The church is now proactive in ferreting out these offenders and confining them to monasteries or laicizing them."
Which is still in direct conflict with Romans 13:1 though right?
The statute of limitation has run on most of these offenders -- since most of the molestations took place years ago. Many of the offenders being accused now are already dead or so old and frail that they could not stand trial anyway. The ones who were caught in time in fact did hard time -- this happened to a visiting priest in the Atlanta archdiocese years ago. The archbishop here stood no nonsense about "curing" anybody, the man fled but was apprehended and sent to prison.
The mistake that the church made in the first place was to follow the advice of the "psychiatric professionals" who thought these guys could be cured. They can't. The safest thing to do with them is to put them someplace that they cannot reoffend - i.e. in a remote monastery. Which is what the church used to do to them until the "professionals" thought better of it . . .
Interestingly enough, the worst offenders were in the more heterodox dioceses where bishops tended to water down the Catholic faith. Fuzzy thinking and disobedience and homosexual molestation go hand in hand in hand.