Known pedophile priests were simply moved by bishops or cardinals to unsuspecting parishes after being accused in one parish, and by making false statements that the pedophile would go to a monastery, or otherwise never be in contact with children. Here are two documentary films that show that:

• See the PBS' Frontine: "Hand of God". This film can be seen online using Quicktime and other formats. Here is the web page: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/handofgod/view/
• Rent the DVD: "Deliver us from Evil," produced by Lionsgate Films. The film documents the enabling of pedophilia by Archbishop Mahone.

The basic problem is that pedophilia, in the preachings of the Church, is no worse than masterbation. Both are mortal sins, which is the maximum sin. The life-long harm to the victims is ignored by the pedophile and their enabler bishops, except when legal action is taken or threatened. In contrast, masterbation, which is actually beneficial and necessary for normal development, is placed in the same category as pedophillia: a mortal sin. The Church has these sex acts totally backwards. If the Church was a person, that person would be considered either mentally sick and/or deranged and/or evil.

I left because of the above (even before most news exposing the Church's pedophillia). The Roman Catholic Church was

• against healthy living (opposed condoms)
• against the environment by encouraging overpopulation and leaving future generations in poverty.
• against human nature by requiring not only abstinence for those not unmarried, but prohibiting ejaculation in any form.
• requiring masochism. I had to ejaculate daily in high school or else the pressure built up by sperm was very painful. This pain was only relieved by ejaculation.
• creating guilt complexes among youth too inexperienced to realize that the anti-masturbation statements were based on nonsense.
• against logic: every sperm is NOT sacred! Probably less than one in a billion are ever used for reproduction. The above concepts belong to the days when the Church fought Galleleo's astronomical findings, and threatened Galleleo with torture to extort a retraction of his scientific statements, such as the earth goes around the sun.

The above lies are bad enough, but now we find out that the priests and bishops themselves never believed any of it! They are hypocrites.

Worse, while claiming that masturbation is hideous (even today!), they are involved in sexual practices and cover-ups that are truly hideous, and outright crimes! Here is the proof:

A newly discovered Vatican document from 1962 not only officially sanctions the cover-ups of pedophilia by priests, but actually requires it, along with keeping the existence of the document a secret. The "juicy" portions are quite well hidden inside, and it even has a misleading title, having to do with the sacrament of confession.  Even revealing the existence of the document will result in excommunication "ipso facto" or automatically, and presumably the person will go to hell.  Only the pope himself can remove this excommunication.

The document is downloadable (1.8 MB) from this page at CBS News.  In case the link was changed, or the documents removed, I copied it to my web site. Clicking the next links will download the .pdf file for either the English or Latin version on this website.

Priests committing pedophilia/ephebophilia are effectively encouraged to have sex with children, raping those unable to defend themselves, as a result of being given fresh victims at a new parish whenever the parents of one parish catch wind of the pedophilia/ephebophilia. The new parishioners are never informed. The prior parishioners know only because they informed themselves.

The cover-ups actually were worse than the initial pedophilia/ephebophilia. They perpetuated it. Pedophilia/ephebophilia would have stopped by just dismissing the assaulters upon their first such act.

Update on 10/24/18: Here is a report about the priestly pedophilia and cover-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area: Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of San Francisco ...

Instead of their official perverse policy damaging children outlined above, they should just allow their priests (and everyone else) masturbate, allow adult sex (gay or straight), and allow birth control.