Pederasty is therefore always a special form of homosexual behavior, which is not true of pedophilia. It is satanic in either case, but that much more pronounced when it infects the Church.
Pederastry was common in all pagan countries, and still persists in very conservative Islamic societies. In Afghanistan and in Pakistan, for instance, there are teenage male "sex workers" or haliqs, and bachas in Uszbeki areas.
Kosta,
If we limit ourselves to only pedophilia and pederasty, we limit the scope of the problem. There's much more to this. What of heterosexuals who were just not able to control themsleves, men who went into the priesthood with pure hearts and who just were not able to live by their vows, men who did as Archbishop Cranmer did before the death of King Henry VIII? It is said that he married secretly and kept his wife in a box as he travelled about the archdiocese. My wife has told me of her parish priest (in her youth), who had a "housekeeper" and that it was well known that this housekeeper was more than just that. There are many such tales.
I do not condemn these men. I say that all of this stuff has resulted from a system that is not based on reality. And I wonder. A lot is coming out into the open now. How much went on from the 9th century to the present that we will not learn of until the dread Day of Judgement when all must give account?
I am reminded of the words of the first Pope of Rome to the Council of Jerusalem: Act 15:10 "Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?"
You are probably correct about the terminology.
My point, again, was that the crisis is portrayed in the media as being one of pedophilia, when it is really a problem with homosexuality.