"Gotten us into some legal problems..." WHAT? The church still doesn't get it! They just , all the way from the Vatican, do not have the understanding what the sex abuses in the church have done not only to the victims, but to the parishoners.
Oh, they get it. That's what the seminary evaluation is all about.
If gays are disappointed that they can't become Catholic priests, perhaps a career with the NYTIMES would be equally fulfilling.
The thing that is good about this is that he is talking specifically about homosexuals, not pedophiles. In other words, the problem has been identified, since most of the priests who caused the "legal problems" were not specifically pedophiles, but homosexuals who focused on older boys and teenagers, a very common attraction among homosexual men. There appear to have been a handful of specifically pedophile priests who preyed on young children of either sex, but with the vast majority, this was not the case.
O'Brien is a tough cookie and while his speech may not sound particularly sympathetic, remember that he is addressing the press, which is already depicting this as the second coming of the Inquisition. He's explaining quite factually why the homosexual culture has to be rooted out of the seminaries.
These people have veered so far off the reservation that they no longer recognize whom they are serving as under-shepherds for (hint: a GOD that does not forget sin, unless it is truly repented from and a moral outcome results from that repentance; neither of which appear in this statement.)
No sincere believer can accept the concept that "leading little children to sin"; is not merely a "legal problem"; it is a sign of moral corruption and with that attitude in mind, how can any serious believing Catholic presume to place any faith it what the Catholic Church says?