The Catholic Church has received more than it's share of criticism from we protestants for not removing practicing homosexual priests from the clergy, and IMHO that criticism is deserved. But hopefully Pope Francis will change that policy and the outrageous crime of homosexual Catholic priests preying on young boys who are placed in their charge will soon become a thing of the past.
Anyone with any sense of reality will have to note that it is already a thing of the past. It is very hard to find any cases where the abuse occurred in the last 15 years. It may have come to light in recent years but the abuse was decades ago. We can argue over the way the bishops handled it in the press and the lack of leadership they showed publically... but the reality is that they did do something right in dealing with the problem.
For contrast, the rate of abuse in the schools remains above 30% (a student entering today has a 30% chance of some sort of sexual abuse by a teacher during their tenure through high school) and the Boy Scouts are inviting open homosexuals. The time to criticize the Catholic Church on this issue is passed.
Actually, the CC should never have been criticized in the first place, as the whole problem had/has its roots in modern psychological thought, rather than anything wrong with the Church.
The psychologists were telling the church hierarchy that "queers are like normal people and capable of restraining their warped sexual urges", and could therefore be counted on to remain celibate, just like the heterosexuals already do, more or less successfully. After all, if they remain celibate, how are they different from heterosexuals??
So the CC abandoned the scrutiny/discernment requirements that had been successful for 2000 years, and embraced modern "psycho-think". We have all seen the result(s).....not good. And since, as a result of this hiatus, there are now queers "in" the hierarchy, re-instituting to old rules will be painful, difficult, and take at least a generation or two to be fully successful.
I’m very glad to learn that homosexual predation on young boys by what must have been a small segment of the Catholic clergy has been ended by the Catholic Church itself instead of by government authorities. I could never understand why something that awful and immoral could have continued in the Church for any long period of time without being discovered and eliminated by whatever means were necessary. Thanks for the update on that issue.