Funny how Catholics only go after priests who *break their vows* to become married to a woman.
Not a peep about those countless priests who break their vows molesting children. It reveals some kind of deep seated twisted issue about sex in their minds.
Instead it’s excuse after excuse and once a priest always a priest and as long as their intent if *right* they can lift up those hands which perpetrate such debauchery as if they are pure and holy and *consecrate* the host and place it in the mouth of the person receiving communion.
If only people knew what those hands had been doing.
Of course, the RCC has to take that stand. Could you imagine the fallout if people thought that the sacraments they had been receiving for all those years were not valid? Their salvation would be at risk. They could not bear the thought. Therefore, denial is their only option.
So much for your claim of ever having been a Catholic, or knowing the CCC. Ex opere operato: is a Latin phrase meaning "from the work worked" referring to the efficacy of the Sacraments deriving from the action of the Sacrament as opposed to the merits or holiness of the priest or participant.