I think I have it. You ordain a bunch of homos.
The cause...in a word....CELIBACY!
That conclusion has no authority until you spend $335K to come up with it. And then it will be buried.
For an exhaustive answer to that question, please read the book "Goodbye to Good Men". I believe the authors last name is Rose. Read it awhile ago and passed it on to my Catholic family members.
Yeah, too true. And the worst of it is that Catholic's everywhere outside the seminaries and the left-wing of the Church (those advancing women priests, married priests and homosexual marriage in the Church) realize this and get little traction within the Church. Young Catholic men report that some seminaries are so filled with homosexuals that they "weed" out conservative straight men from the priesthood. The end result (no pun) is that fewer priests come into the Church in America then elsewhere and those that are at least tolerate homosexuality.
Bingo!
I had a nice lengthy response in the works, but you summed it up in 11 words.
The Church wants to "look at what is unique" in the priest sex abuse crisis, he said.
We know what is unique. 90% of the victims were teenage boys.
Exactly. Pretty simple really, stop letting poofs become priests.
Hey, no fair, you can't get the right answer on the first post!
The church however has had over 1,000 years of this "problem".
Ya think?
Please submit invoice.
And then cover for them when they start using their position of trust to prey on their charges.
There is only one way to stop the spread of corruption in ANY organization. Hunt down the bad apples, out them publicly and purge them from your ranks.
Exactly...
The Church foolishly turned its back on its tradition... it instatiated its own version of "don't ask don't tell" basically saying you can be homosexual, as long as you aren't "practicing" and we'll still consider you for priesthood.
Well this turned the priesthood into an ever growing group of homosexual men.. and all that comes with it. In some diocese they have become so dominant that they control everything, trade sexual favors for influence and power and push aside any who speak up against them or they feel is a threat.
It is not coincidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse of boys is done by unrelated men... You don't let mentally ill people who believe their sexual gratification trumps everything else, no matter how self destructive it may be into any organization that has power, or even the perception of power over others, let alone grants them trusted access to children, particularly boys.
The church turned its back on the biblical teachings regarding homosexuality in a bid to feel "more inclusive" and they got burned badly for it... I don't believe the typical lay Catholic has any idea how widespread the problem is today.
LOLOL. By george, I think he's got it!
Exactly. They need an expensive study to figure this out?
That sums it up.