Yes, I'm pretty sure this was a dissident ritual performed on a healthy baby, I'm not sure who was most responsible for the breach of church discipline (the parents or the nun).
The point stands, though. Nothing wrong with vigorous discipline, evenly applied. The public chastisement of men leaving the priesthood to marry stands in sharp contrast to the public treatment of the soul murderers, and THAT is significant.
I don’t know what planet you’re living on but it can’t be this one.
Please name one priest in this country who has been found guilty of sexually abusing children, who has not yet been punished by the Church and who is still a priest in good standing. While it is true that up until about ten years ago, the bishops failed to remove these men from ministry and covered up the scandal, that is no longer the case. The pendulum has truly swung in the opposite direction from the bishops not doing enough to the bishops doing too much because there are some innocent priests, who have been falsely accused, and who have been removed from ministry even though there is no credible evidence that they are guilty.
The anti-Catholic bigots who are using the sex abuse scandal as an excuse to attack the Church, need to find something else to complain about because they are no longer credible.