The real and obvious problem today in the Church is the tacit acceptance of homosexuality at the highest levels of the Church, the Pope himself's "who am I to judge."
Even after the very effective anti-homophile papacy's of Pope Saint John II and Pope Benedict XVI, there are still a significant number of high ranking officials in the Church at all levels who are homophiles and express their public support of homosexuality in all its forms. That is clearly against the decalogue and against Canon Law, to be pro-sexual immorality of any type, never mind doing it! But this position is politically correct and those clergymen have accepted it and promote it. And it is that very homosexuality, which they openly approve and promote, that is at the root of almost all of the criminal abuse. But the homosexualists deny that fact and continue to flaunt the Church Law on the matter of homosexual immorality in the priesthood because they condone that same immorality in the world in general.
The problem is gaydom!
And that problem has been with the Church our entire lifetime. What has changed now is that there is a very strong body of clergy at every level that are vocally opposed to this social and ecclesiastical aberration of homophilia and they are calling it out and demanding an end to it in the Church. We are actually in the best position ever in our age regarding the integrity of the clergy. The present crisis now is simply that this slow-dying cancer is finally being publicly confronted (from within the Church, of course). Let's see if that helps clean it up, and not just in typical hypocritical minimal response to the civil law, which does not address the real problem which is "thou shalt not commit adultery" (with all the variations on that theme), purity, the Gospel!
The criminals regarding civil law have been dealt with very severely by the Church. That is not the issue. The issue is the world-approved perverse immorality which has corrupted the Church and is slow to die. The Church needs to stand, not for the law of men, but for the law of God and of His Church. Do that and we will have no problems with the laws of men, even when they try to destroy us (and they will) for following the law of God.
