Marcial Maciel?!

[kmaaj]

…But before someone can go to prison, they must first be subjected to a civil trial, and unfortunately I don’t think that ever happened with Maciel (at least I have not come upon the records of any such trial)…

I am going to stab another guess, here, and ponder the possibility Maciel was in collusion with a corrupt civil government.

Whether that is the case or not, it is very important to note that in these cases, canon law is much more severe than civil law. There are cases where abusive priests, when proven guilty and given the choice of a life of seclusion and penance, or total excommunication, they became not only former priests, but former Catholics, period. And many proven abusive priests, when they left the Roman Catholic Church altogether, they remained untouched by civil law and penalty.

I double dog dare the common media to report on THAT aspect of clergy abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.