There is a no priest sex scandal, there is a homosexual priest scandal. The free-living, free-sex culture of the 60s and early 70s infected the Church like it did the rest of society. They relaxed standards on accepting homosexuals into the priesthood, believing these men when they said they could remain celibate. Anyone that has ever been around homosexual men know this is not the case with them. Most love young teenage boys and the more the merrier. I think this will always be a problem as long as the Church accepts them in to the priesthood. The vast majority of priests take their faith seriously and are not inclined to homosexuality. The media never mentions this 98% of the priesthood. The liberal media loves to tar and feather the entire priesthood, when that certainly is not the case. The reason for this is while they love the homosexual lifestyle they hate the Catholic Church for it’s unbending stances on social issues like no ordination for women, no abortion for any reason, and for standing up for marriage the way it’s been since the beginning of recorded history. The haters and heathens will never destroy the Church. They have tried for over 2,000 years and it’s still around and will be around for 2,000 more it the world lasts that long, which is highly unlikely.
Thats an interesting angle on it. I’ve always kind of thought of the idea of someone who struggles with homosexuality joining and then acting out their weakness, but I’ve always thought of it more in the sense of someone struggling with it...but the idea of, if I can venture the term, gays joining as predators is something I haven’t thought of.
If you dont mind me asking a little more, what exactly is the process for being a priest? Like what would a man have to go through, what kind of “vetting” is there (do they have background checks?), and is there any kind of supervisory period from the time one enters the priesthood to when, say, one is given a parish or allowed to work around kids? Maybe it would be a good idea for a priest to work around other men in a monastery for a few years...but of course I’m speculating.
I certainly agree with you that I’m sure that the VAST majority of Priests and Nuns love God and are sincere in their devotion to him and his service. And I recognize fully that I wouldn’t have my Bible today if it weren’t for some Monk somewhere that loved God enough to spend his life transfering words from one page to another. I dont agree with everything the Catholic Church teaches, or obviously I’d be one, but I do find the whole history and proceedures of the Church interesting, and want them to do well as a member of the same Body of Christ that I belong to.