If the Catholic church had properly addressed the issue and dealt with the abusive priests, the DA would not have had the opportunity to fail to protect the victims.
The Catholic church already failed to protect the victims. They beat the DA to it.
In this largely post-Christian America and sensual age, abuse does transcend the RCC, but restricting the priesthood (besides the fact that the N,.T. did not have a separate class of sacerdotal priests, but ordained bishops/elders) is not only Scripturally unwarranted but is conducive to homosexuality in the long term, while the typical liberal listing of Catholics in general also exists among their priests.
30% of Roman Catholic priests described themselves as Liberal, 28% as Conservative, and 37% as Moderate in their Religious ideology.
53 percent responded that they thought it always was a sin for unmarried people to have sexual relations; 32 percent that is often was, and 9 percent seldom/never.
71 percent responded that it always was wrong for a woman to get an abortion, 19 percent that it often was, and 4 percent seldom/never.
28 percent judged that is always was sin for married couples to use artificial birth control, 25 percent often, 40 percent never.
49 percent affirmed that it was always a sin to engage in homosexual behavior, often, 25 percent; and never, 19 percent.
To take one’s own life if suffering from a debilitating disease: always, 59 percent; often, 18 percent; never, 17 percent.
15 percent of the current clergy listed themselves as “gay or on the homosexual side.” Among younger priests 23 percent did so.
44 percent of the priests said “definitely” a homosexual subculture’—defined as a `definite group of persons that has its own friendships, social gatherings and vocabulary’—exists in their diocese or religious order.
Los Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002). Arthur Jones, 2002 National Catholic Reporter. Gale Group. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_2_39/ai_94129129/pg_2