I would expect any Protestant faith that had a hierarchy with sovereign power over its ministry to revoke such a minister's credentials and remove him from that church.
The Pope has that power in the Catholic church, yet I wonder why he hasn't defrocked these priests and excommunicated them. It's pretty obvious they don't need to be priests to the people, especially with the spiritual status the church assigns to priests, and they don't belong in the Catholic faith at all for using that status to bring harm and pain to others for their own physical lusts particularly in the face of a vow of celibacy.
I doubt the Pope condones this behavior of his priests, but continued failure to issue the specific remedy when it is in his power to do so would certainly make it appear to many that he does.
I wonder why he hasn't defrocked these priests and excommunicated them. Those actually convicted have been defrocked. The media did not give those stories the same coverage it did to the initial ones because they lack the same sensationalism.
continued failure to issue the specific remedy when it is in his power to do so would certainly make it appear to many that he does.
Failure??? The Catholic Church implemented the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People several years ago.
What has the US Government done to protect students from sexual predators in the field of education? According to a major 2004 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education – the most in-depth investigation to date - nearly 10 percent of U.S. public school students have been targeted with unwanted sexual attention by school employees. More than 4.5 million students are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade, says the report, more than 100 times the abuse by priests. Where's the outrage? Where's the media on this? Why aren't parents marching on Washington DC? What have you done about this?
What have the Protestant churches done to protect their own members, or the Muslims or the Jews? Yet here you are complaining about the pope. Why?