But no.
I would oppose RICO or any other strategy that would result in "massive fines, forfeiture and generally putting the church out of business."
That would just re-victimize us, the innocent laypeople, liquidating what WE and our parents and grandparents had lovingly invested in our parishes and schools for generations, and leaving guilty high-level clerics free to retire with not a visible or audible scintilla of repentance.
Weakland paid out $$ settlements in Milwaukee, McCarrick in Metuchen and Newark NJ, Mahony in LA. Many dioceses (is it a dozen now? More?) went through bankruptcy. Everyone who is not living under a rock knows that the Bad Guys are not deterred by financial penalty, as long as those penalties are paid by fleecing or skinning us, the "flock".
I want the perps in jail.
Otherwise the wolves get to eat the lambs and make US pay the tab.
"Make then pay, make them put up for sale the wealth of the church."
No, dammit. They don't get to rape us and rob us too.
The "wealth of the church" belongs to us, not them. Leave us our parishes and schools. Put the cover-uppers in jail for obstruction of justice at least.
Let them find a new vocation doing prison ministry ---- from the inside.
It may necessary to threaten the Church with RICO and anything else to force them to give up the names of those who are pedophiles and make them available for prosecution.
The long term solution is a new fresh leadership that is determined to root out all corruption and punish those that need to be up to and including Excommunication.
To do that a Pope with great determination and backbone will be needed to clean house and the support to do so.
The Question is can or will that happen????????????