Pedophilia
The pedophile crisis in the Vatican II and Traditionalist Churches is an indication of the lack of holiness in these sects. Not that a sinner proves an organization is unholy, but the manner in which the hierarchy has dealt with this crisis does.
Catholic Church law is quite specific on how to handle a pedophile in the clergy.
Canon 2359, paragraph 2 states: "If they" (clerics) "have committed an offense against the sixth commandment with minors under sixteen years of age, or been guilty of adultery, rape, bestiality, sodomy, traffic in vice, or incest with blood-relatives or relations by marriage in the first degree, they shall be suspended, declared infamous, deprived of every office, benefice, dignity, or position that they may hold, and in more grievous cases they shall be deposed."
The Catholics Church immediately suspends such a cleric from the exercise of Holy Orders. They are also declared infamous, meaning that until the Pope personally reconciles them, they are barred from all exercise of the powers of Orders without exception. The 1983 Code of Canon Law of th Vatican II Church is quite lax on dealing with pedophilia.
Canon 1395, paragraph 2: "A cleric who has offended in other ways against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue, if the crime was committed by force, or by threats, or in public, or with a minor under the age of sixteen years, is to be punished with just penalties, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state if the case so warrants."
Given the manner in which this has been applied, apparently a move across town or to another part of the diocese is a just penalty. Certainly such a man should not be trusted in the pastoral office again! He should rather be confined to a monastery where he cannot harm another child!
Saint Paul warned of this in Romans chapter 1:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. 27 And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. 28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.
