text: Please see my reply to your other comment just above.  I have been crystal clear that treatment for sex offenders must take place while the Court has jurisdiction over the offender (either in prison or immediately upon release and under parole/probation).  The Catholic Church has never been able to see the problem as being best handled by outside sources and persist in the position that it is a "spiritual matter," or that since priests who sexually abuse children are also frequently alcoholic as well, help for the alcohol dependence will "take care" of the other behavior.  BTW - no one needs to make any mistake over and over again:  if you have been in recovery for as long as you say you have, then you have learned to stop making your mistakes and have accumulated a range of coping abilities you never had before, right?  So, too, can pedophiles and rapists and other sex offenders, drug addicts, abusive men, violent teens, and so on.  We need not be hopeless or helpless.