[marshmallow]

I believe the acceptance of homosexuals in the Seminaries were an outgrowth of the liberal attitudes, not the other way around.

Perhaps. In practice, I think it's probably a chicken/egg situation. A little hard to discover which came first.

If you read the John Jay Report on the sex abuse crisis, you'll see that 44% of the accused priests analysed in the report, were ordained prior to 1960. That's almost half. This before Vatican II and before the proverbial you-know-what supposedly hit the fan.

This tells me that there were significant numbers of homosexual clergy already in place prior to the 1960s. I have no doubt that many of these men played significant roles in the chaos which ensued in the wake of VII, which in turn, led to an even more liberal and pro-homosexual attitude in seminaries.

In other words, a "snowball" effect.

[Iris7]

I think you are correct. This situation looks to me to predate Vatican II by at least a generation.

I offer no evidence. I reason here by inference. Some of these people are quite old. The Bishops who ordained them are long dead. The "lavender" network must reach back at least to the 19th Century. Less blatant then, of course.

Perhaps I have become too suspicious. Indeed.