But it seems that they 'came of age' during the era of sexual revolution and drug culture. These things were widely accepted in society and glorified by the entertainment industry.
'Homosexuality' is not even considered abnormal by the Medical Profession. Government wants to grand extra rights. Sadly the Church did not have the wisdom of the boy scouts (and you see what is happening to them today).
During this era, sin was dumbed-down to the level of the sinner. Sin was not in and is still not. Today we are 'pastoral' and 'can't offend'. The Bishops need to order the modern equivalent of sack cloth and ashes for themselves to restore confidence.
When They Came for the Catholics, Part 2
Michael Savage
Friday, April 12, 2002
Michael Savage interviews William Donahue
SAVAGE: William Donahue, I read somewhere that some are saying there's a velvet mafia that took over many Catholic seminaries. Is there any truth to that statement, in your opinion?
DONAHUE: Well, Andrew Greeley, who is famous for writing sex novels, did come out and say that there was a lavender mafia. There's no question there's a homosexual network. Here's the proof, Mike. I'm looking at this stuff, of course, day in, day out, I'm living it. And these pedophiles would say to the kids, "You'd better not say anything because if you do, no one will believe you."
Now, when a guy says that in New York, the other guy says it in Dallas, that's a network. They're all on the same page, they've got their cue cards together. And that's the scary thing about it; it became a mantra. So there is a network there. How big is it? I don't exactly know, but whatever it is, it's damaging.
Though the sexual revolution took place in terms of ideas in the 1960s, all hell didn't break loose until the '70s. The Catholic Church is not an insular institution. It hit the church like a hurricane, and these guys just took their libidos and threw it to the wind. They should have just left the priesthood and said "It's not working out for me."
Instead, they reinterpreted everything. Even bestiality now could be understood as not intrinsically evil. And there was a book, by Father Anthony Kosnick, that was used in seminaries in the late '70s that was used to promote this. So if anything, this is not a church run by conservatives, run by the ruler. This has been a free-for-all for decades.
I was in a Catholic college and you should see the anti-Catholicism that existed there at the highest ranks, including the nuns who ran the place and who didn't want anybody with a collar, namely a monsignor, any priest, to get the job.
You know what? The liberals are saying it all has to come out. Oh, boy, nobody wants it all to come out more than Bill Donahue, and once it does, people will find out what a bunch of phonies a lot of these liberals have been. They've been eating away at the Catholic Church like a bunch of termites for a long time. Some of these priests and nuns are like welfare kings and queens. They should have the decency to get off the dole.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/12/224854.shtml