Responding to Netizen's Comment

Netizens' Follow-Up Comments: On Church Scandals

This perhaps could be one reason why the faithful of the Church are decreasing as observed in their numbers lately.  Aside from the blatant hypocrisy that is often noticeable among the ranks of the clergy, the Catholic laity sees erosion in the cherished value of trust owing to the questionable behavior by some active members of the church hierarchy. 

Response:

The situation has gone worse that Vatican laws were changed to baring their fangs.  It gave us the semblance that the Pope had to change Roman Catholic laws to explicitly criminalized church offenders -toughen the Canon Law and thereby police their ranks.

It is the biggest ecclesiastical law overhaul in the last 40 years.