Cardinal Bernard Law, who used to head the Boston archdiocese, took great pains to cover up widespread child molestation among the priests of his archdiocese. He then got promoted to Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Meanwhile, a 9-year-old girl in Brazil was raped and impregnated, and she had an abortion to avoid the trauma of having a baby at 9 or 10 years of age. As a result, the child's mother, the doctor performing the abortion, and the entire medical team that participated in the procedure, were all excommunicated. The rapist was not excommunicated, essentially getting off scot free in the eyes of the Church, as is the policy of the Catholic Church to conveniently ignore child sexual abuse.
Luckily I haven't sexually abused a child, so I'm still eligible for excommunication.
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