In the early 1980’s a colleague of mine showed me a VHS tape of an elderly brother from some order in her homestate of MN who was railing against the takeover of the Church and its seminaries by homosexuals. I guess he was correct.
CodeToad: The Catholic organization has had pedophile priests for centuries. they just choose to do nothing about it for fear of losing their precious money.
Both of you are correct. For centuries, influential and wealthy Catholic families in Europe and the Western Hemisphere sent their homosexual sons to the seminary. Donations flowed into church coffers, and their presence was a carefully guarded secret. The homosexual priests became a fairly powerful minority and they protected, and continue to protect their own. Any homosexual priest who got into trouble was assigned to different duties, or relocated to another diocese. Victims and their families were bullied into silence.
In the next post, I'm going to provide links to a Washington Post article, a Boston Globe article, and a Newsweek article that admit there are a very large number of Catholic priests who are homosexual, and the sexual abuse problem is almost entirely homosexual. Also the data from the 2016 USCCB study showed that more than 80% of abusing priests are same sex attracted, and more than 90% of the victims are post-pubescent. They're attracted to teenaged (adolescent) boys who are vulnerable.
He was absolutely correct.. The biggest mistake in modern times of the church, if not in its 2000 year history was the decision in the 60s to allow admitted but “non-practicing” homosexuals into the seminary.
Now there are entire diocese that are completely run by sodomites, who trade sexual favors for positions and protect each other and drive ANYONE who might oppose them out in the boonies.
Nearly this ENTIRE mess is directly related to homosexual activity... Nearly 80% of all abuse was on boys... by men, and of that roughly 80% over 80% of that was on post pubescent boys.... Meaning that a full 2/3 of the abuse allegations were by homosexual men on post pubescent yet under 18 boys.
This is NO excuse for the Church covering this stuff up.. and it does not dismiss any of the cases regardless of their details. Sadly sexual abuse will happen in ANY organization that has access to children.. and while the stories are heartbreaking the incident of abuse is, even with these horrendous stories incredibly rare... That isn’t an excuse, but it is rare. Over more than 7 decades of investigation by this PA grand Jury they found 300 alleged priests and 1000 victims... When you realize how many children were involved in the church and its schools over those 70 years, even if the report only represents 10% of all cases, its still a very very small number.
However, without homosexuals in the priesthood, the numbers would be a third of what they are!!! The PC garbage that Homosexuals are just like everyone else is destroying lives... The refusal to accept the reality that has been shown time and time again, that homosexuals, particularly homosexual men, are far more likely to abuse and be predatory that any other group sexually is destroying peoples lives. Your sons should not be being offered up to this lie.
The Church has a LOT of work to do, but without being honest that homosexuals within the church are a huge part of the problem, nothing will truly change...
This has been known to anyone willing to pay attention for DECADES..... And any excuse to deflect is being used.