Maybe they can move him around to other parishes where he hasn’t embezzled some money until he steals again. And then excommunicate anyone who tells the cops about it. You know, like how Ratzi the Natzi did with the pedophile priests?

Would it do any good to teach them that they’re wrong when they steal from their parishoners like this? If they can’t operate ethically by the time they’ve been vetted by the cult’s hierarchy, would another lecture cause them to change their ways?

I doubt it, it just goes to show that accepting a dogma never really reinforced anyone’s moral fiber, it only does one of two things.

allows people to mask their own preconceptions and bigotry in a “moral” fascade

or

offsets morality to a different set of decisions, allowing people to think they’re good people as long as they do or don’t do X(beleive nonsense) even though they still do or don’t do Y (any moral decision with real human consequences)

stolen once, stolen twice, gone…..
to the crooked priest in White Plains

Smart embezzlers only take as much as they can get away with. Slipping a few bills off of a collection plate for ‘expenses incurred’ is not much of a risk. Watching hundreds of thousands go through trust accounts at headquarters is where the risk-reward equation gets problematic for the conscience-free.