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.
There are Hurndreds and Hundreds of “Priests” who never were punished for their Crimes due to the Hierarchy hiding them until after the Statute of Limitations ran out.
“Cardinal Mahoney is a Classic example of this protection of Homosexual Priests.
Yes, that's my point.
It has nothing to do with anti-Catholic bigotry. Bishops (for the most part) were and are very quick to publicly act against priests who marry (at least if they marry women) or nuns who are disobedient. That's fine with me.
It is decidedly NOT fine that compassionate, charitable, and sensitive management is reserved for these ravening wolves who destroyed the innocence of thousands.
Don't you see that this SELECTIVE charity is a huge problem in its own right? Yes, now that they've been caught out, they are trying to stop the practice of child soul murder. They make sure that every DRE, every youth leader, every CCD teacher knows that you are not supposed to anally rape the children entrusted to your care.
But of course, they all knew that already.
What they didn't know is that, while the successors of the apostles can act decisively, within hours in fact, against clergy who violate their vows of chastity in a heterosexual way, that they can not bring themselves to do so in the case of homosexual child molesters.
That is not anti-Catholic bigotry. That's a fact, that's a sin, and repentence is what is called for.