“Oh, that’s just typical of any institution. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along… Please?”
In seriousness, I think there’s a solid argument for the Catholic Church being federally dismantled. I think it can be considered a crime ring at this point.
The Catholic Church is primarily made up of lay people, not priests. And I have a lot of hope in the quality of modern seminaries (the 60s to 90s produced countless unbelievably terrible priests). You’re right though, the Church has a serious problem. If any of those priests can’t be prosecuted civilly for some reason, a bread and water fast and solitary confinement in a monastery somewhere should be imposed on them for the rest of their lives. That’s more like how the Church used to deal with them.