The part about institutionally rejecting homosexuality in the face of what must be tremendous pressure to change the historic rule with so many priests and bishops part of either the practicing culture or the "see no evil" culture that had to have existed.
"The part about institutionally rejecting homosexuality in the face of what must be tremendous pressure to change the historic rule with so many priests and bishops part of either the practicing culture or the "see no evil" culture that had to have existed."
Ah, now I understand...just the simple grandson of simple Greek peasants, you know! :
As a sidelight to all of this, there are some writings by the Desert Fathers which deal with the struggle some of the their monks or novices had with same sex attraction which were written in the very early centuries of The Church. Neither temptation unacted upon nor apparently sexual orientation seemed to disqualify those men from their vocation.