Were they prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?

As well they should be. If only the Catholics were also prosecuted by the law.
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As most Catholics have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, I don't know what you are trying to infer.

Surely you are not naive enough to think that Catholics are some how exempt from the law? How in hell does that work?

What utter nonsense!


Show me the prosecutions. There have been none, only an official apologise. Just large payouts, often followed by the victim commiting "suicide".


Here's one who got a slap on the wrist:


1983, after admitting in court that he sexually assaulted a teenage boy, the Rev. Carmine Sita of St. Aloysius Church in Jersey City was sentenced to five years of probation. He was also told to visit a treatment center for priests in New Mexico.

Sita stayed at the center. But soon afterward, he was not Carmine Sita anymore.

At age 38, he legally changed his name to Gerald Howard and was allowed to become a parish priest in Boonville, Mo., in the Diocese of Jefferson City, church officials said. Within a year, he had begun abusing another teenage boy, according to lawyers for that person, who is now in his late 30s and living in Virginia.
[link to www.nj.com]


Suicided:


Priest Sex Abuse Victim Found Dead
The Associated Press
An ex-Marine who was one of the first from Delaware to reveal sexual abuse by a priest has died, days after getting a settlement from the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. Attorney Steve Neuberger says Douglas McClure was found dead Thursday in an RV parked at an Eastern Shore campground. McClure had been camping since Tuesday when he signed a $1.5 million settlement in a sexual abuse civil lawsuit. McClure alleged the Rev. Edward Carley sexually abused him weekly for two years, from the time he was eight until he was 10.
[link to www.aboms.com]



Church Abuse Victim McSorley Found Dead

Patrick McSorley, an alleged sexual abuse victim of defrocked priest John J. Geoghan is seen speaking during a news conference in Boston in this June 30, 2003 file photo. It was McSorley's first public appearance since recovering from a near-drowning incident in the Neponset River earlier in 2003. McSorley's attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, announced Monday, Feb. 23, 2004 that McSorley was found dead early Monday, and the cause of death is not known.
[link to www.encyclopedia.com]



That's one a small sample of the corruption of the Roman institution