Would not be surprised to find many of the Catholic clergy believe this. It’s why I suspect they often don’t act with the same kind of shock and outrage that regular people do when they discover one of their own is raping kids (boys mostly). So the church’s response is compassion for the poor sick pedophile priest (who is often a known homosexual), followed by an attempt to cover it up.
I’ve been told the Catholic church has really started cleaning house and I sure hope that is true. We can only hope this Cardinal is not representative of the majority of his fellow Cardinals anymore.
My family has been Roman Catholic back as far as I can trace it- the 12th century- and I’m going to say this. These priests are not shocked and outraged like ‘regular’ people because they are practicing homosexuals who spend much of their time BENT OVER FOR OTHER PRIESTS. They have to cover up child rape-how can you condemn someone for what you are doing? It’s the ‘brotherhood of the d**k’. If the prosecutions start they will not end-they will all turn on each other-resulting in a clergy perhaps 1/5th the size it is now,if not less. They are having sex with other priests, male prostitutes and some are interested only in children. It’s not just the pedophiles we have to eliminate- its ALL homosexual priests-period.
The problem seems to have grown when the Church decided it was alright to allow homosexuals into the priesthood as long as they didn’t practice their inclination. This is like giving an embezzler a job working as a bank teller. This problem as described in Michael Rose’s book “Goodbye, Good Men†which detailed how homosexuals took over certain seminaries. These seminaries became a good hideout for homosexuals who flaunted their sexual proclivities out in the open. Real devout men were pushed out of the seminaries.