So when a priest steals a child’s innocence , his leadership should do restitution instead of further abusing the victims and families.  They instead made the victims lawyer up and provided lawyers for perverts.  After perverts are convicted the church stills provides medical and other benefits to criminals and their dysfunctional families. 

Breaking into someone's home to retrieve it?  And blaming someone else for it when confronted?

Thank you Emile.  Quite helpful.  Not sure how to apply the information.  Let me explain my situation with more detail but change identities for privacy.

Years ago my mother gave me a set of dishes that belonged to my grandmother.  My sister believes I took them from my mother's home without anyone's knowledge which I didn't.  I've kept them in a locked storage room.  Unbeknownst to me a year ago my sister directed her son to break into the storage room and retrieve the dishes because she says my mother promised them to her.  There is no proof other than my sister's word that they were promised to her.  The fact is my mom physically gave them to me and my sister has been aware of this fact since it happened.  I learned recently the dishes were missing and I confronted my sister (because she had previous shown envy towards the dishes) and she confessed that her son had done it.  She also claimed she morally had the right to take them because they were hers and not mine.  She NEVER approached me and asked to have them.  She only made snide comments about them through the years. 

I believe her son is guilty of felony burglary and theft because of the value of the dishes (exceeding $1000).  She believes they are justified in what they did. 

Thoughts?

I told her to keep the dishes but I want to know from a moral perspective if it was theft or not.