And the threat of sodomites, heretics, and infidels was already entrenched then ... and the Church did NOTHING effective to combat them. And now we have Frankie the Talking Heretic polluting the See of Peter, and we have this character buggering his way through the curia.
Simply telling these creeps to shut up for a few years doesn't cut it ... we need to learn from history and take EFFECTIVE steps against them.
I can now finally agree with you.
Dominus tecum.
The Church did do something then:
Pope St. Pius V:
Therefore, wishing to pursue with greater rigor than we have exerted since the beginning of our pontificate, we establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss,