I’ve been wondering for a long time. I’ve never read it spelled out in so many words... but, did the ecclesiastical rot really kick in with the lowlifes who entered the seminaries to get out of the Vietnam-era draft and stayed in the priesthood because it was a phat living that allowed them to spread the liberal gospel from the pulpit AND all the young altar-boys they could molest?
That is a fair question, certainly about the liberal pulpit, not so much about the homo angle.
This I do know...priests do drink copious amounts of alcohol. The lifestyle, especially celibacy has a lot to do with it IMHO. I remember on “Vocations Day” in the seventh grade in parochial school, the girls spent the day at the convent and the boys went to the seminary.
They had a bar at the seminary, complete with commercial beer coolers that would rival a well heeled VFW or American Legion Post.