I am a practicing Catholic and agree with your comment re: redemption except for the part where the Church allowed these molesters to have their jobs back working with children. Forgiveness is one thing... forgetting what you are dealing with is another. The Church made a huge mistake in allowing these pedophiles to continue to remain in the clergy. They should have been dismissed, allowing law enforcement to then proceed with trying and sentencing them for their crimes. To point this out does not make me a hypocrite, rather it makes those in the Church who covered up these crimes hypocrites.
All of this aside, the NYT attack on the Pope is an attempt to destroy the Church. They have a myriad of reasons for doing this, none of which has anything to do with pedophile priests. The NYT is despicable and should take the logs out of their own eyes.