Debauchery has been a catholic hallmark for 2000 years. The PA grand jury investigation went back 70 years, which is pre-Vatican II. 70 years is about the limit for living memory, but this really started 2000 years ago.
Funny you mentioned that because a while back an ordained Priest profusely blamed VII on this scandal and other things as well.
I say this because a lot of lay people say the same thing, but it is dismissed because they are ‘lay people’. Ordained Priests do as well.
No, it's been an ongoing problem in Catholicism for over 1,000 years.
St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah: Homosexual Situation Graver than Damian's Time
It was going on before VII, but VII made it policy and completely wiped out everything that had kept it - or anything else - in check.
This has been going on for hundreds of years maybe longer.
Well that's only partially true......Since heterosexuals outnumber the homosexual population about 44 to 1, as a group the incidence of homosexuals molesting children is up to 40 times greater than heterosexuals.
The article the result of the media under pressure to create a facade over the homosexualization of the priesthood. In short, they are trying to put lipstick on a pig.
“Vatican II started it”
Started it, and started to end it for me. I have officially joined another church. I’ve been a bit ambivalent about it, but not after this week. I will say this, my pastor is very conservative and said to me that he thinks Vigano is like an Old Testament prophet, telling the king he’s doing wrong (my words).
They’re a mess, they need to get it together, but they seem determined to worry about straws and plastic bags, literally garbage.