I read it this weekend -- I plan to give it to a friend of my nephew's who was rejected by the Boston seminary. I don't know the kid myself, but my sister does. She says he's very orthodox (which, of course, according to Rose, is a disqualification in too many seminaries).
I had Blute and Ozone on this morning; they had a guy on (Gallagher?) who's associated with that Voice of the Faithful. I have my doubts about him -- he thinks the Church is trying to scapegoat gays and there's no scientific basis to think homosexuals are more likely to abuse children. Blute and Ozone just let him talk; no one asked where the female victims are.
I listen to Imus, so I didn't hear Gallagher on Blute and Ozone. I don't see how Gallagher thinks the Church is trying to scapegoat homosexuals - we never heard a Cardinal address the homosexual problem within the Church until some of the Catholic columnists addressed it - and then of course, we hear it here on FR.
My best friend's husband attended BC High and two of his friends entered the seminary at St. John's about 1976 - both of them left because of the pressure placed on them by the overwhelming number of homosexual seminarians - one of them said it was like living in a gay bar.
Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend of mine who is a former Catholic, went Unitarian and now is agnostic. She has a friend (I know him as well) who is a former priest and is now living in a homosexual relationship (and they have an adopted child [female] but that is another story) - they are convinced that the problem is not a homosexual one. She thinks it is because the seminarians are joining much too young and therefore, their sexual growth is arrested at that age and it is not normal and the result of that is the behavior we are seeing now. Naturally, she thinks celibacy isn't normal. I didn't address the fact that most seminarians are in their 20s, but I did ask her why almost every single victim is a boy - and she did not reply. It is just common sense to see the link.
Personally, I think a lot of these Cardinals and Bishops are afraid of offending the homosexual community - they don't want them picketing outside the Churches and they don't want to be accused of being "homophobes" - horror of horrors! That's what happens when you forget that Jesus' Church isn't supposed to be "pc" - She is in the business of salvation and nothing else.