Because priests are trained to have a god complex and to imagine themselves as some conduit between god and man and therefore outside the generality of the human race, they then place the sanctity of a monster before the wellbeing of a child and dare to call this a god fearing god loving religious calling.
In a perverse way McArdie was likely embolden after confession to go back and do it again having been absolved of his sins.
So this is a story about 31 pedophiles, not just one.
