And therein lies Catholicism’s problem.
It’s the ANCIENT church that dealt with them that way. After a few hundred years, that all changed.
So this problem has been undealt with for well over 1,000 years.
Not a very good track record.
Like Israel,the Catholic Church has preserved a long, long written record of sin and grace: the downfalls, the repentances, the restorations. The Old Testament record of God's people contains hints about similar seasons of human iniquity (the Baal-Peor incident in Hosea comes to mind). I suspect we'd find recurring eruptions of human iniquity all along, if we have some way to look into the record.
What was *your* church doing about sexually offending clergy, say 700 years ago?