The Catholic Church could fix the pedo problem by allowing priests to marry a woman. It would get rid of most of the gay pedo problems.
Gather ‘round, young people, while Uncle LHR gives you a little history lesson.
Once upon a time, priests married and had families like everyone else. There wasn’t a lot of diversity in religions back then (pre-Protestant revolution, England splitting from the Catholic Church, etc.), so most monarchs effectively made the Catholic religion the “state sponsored” faith.
For most people, life simply sucked. You lived in a hovel, lived miserably by modern standards, and died young. The local parish priest offered hope that the next realm would be better.
Naturally, people wanted to please the local emissary of God and frequently gave gifts or their entire estate to the church when they died.
Local priests began to accumulate wealth and started passing it down to their sons, who also became priests. Over time, their wealth and influence began to rival the local Sheriff, Duke, and Lords that comprised the government structure which existed during the Feudal era.
Eventually, the Kings of countries like England, France, Spain, Italy, etc. grew concerned that ALL of the power would consolidate itself under the church and undermine their monarchies.
So they did what Kings do: they made an offer that not even the Pope could refuse. They went to the Pope and said “We’ve got a problem and unless you want to go to war with ALL of us, we need to nip this problem In the bud.”
The results of that negotiation was an edict from the Pope that Priests could no longer marry and their wealth would transfer directly to the church. They would henceforth lead celibate lives of austerity in service to God. And leave the Nuns alone as they are brides of Christ, capiche?
Nowhere in that set of instructions was “it’s OK to diddle kids”. The ones that go down that path should be chemically castrated and banished to “leper island” until they die and head straight to Hades.
