Shoplifting charge against Catholic priest is upgraded to a felony

http://www.bnd.com/2011/11/11/1937086/charge-against-catholic-priest.html
This is a crazy story and what I don't understand is why is this man a continued priest and why is he able to bail himself out of jail. It's clear that he has a serious problem that needs to be address. He's stealing items that have low value and that could only be for two reasons. The first reason is that he know that if it's under a certain amount then the justice system will only keep him in jail for a short time. The second reason is that he just can't help himself and he wants to see if he can get away with it. All in all this is putting the Catholic dioceses in a bad spotlight, like the old saying goes "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch."