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I'd guess it would depend on how open the divorced- by KevinPS
remarried marriage is, etc. I do know of teachers who were threatened with termination if they didn't cease living with a partner without being married and, in one instance, a teacher was told that she'd lose her job if she married her divorced boyfriend.
The Church had/has the problems to which I think you're referring precisely because certain priests--about 2%, nearly as I can tell--were molesting boys (80% were post-pubescent boys, so the problem was predatory homosexuality-) and at least some bishops said and did nothing. Saying nothing about this won't help anyone.