The problem is the American bishops, many of whom are homosexual perverts themselves. Since the bishops ultimately control who enters and who leaves the seminary, these deviates can stack the seminaries with those who tend towards homosexuality and dismiss those who complain about it. The Church will prevail though. I can already see strong signs that this Vatican isn't going to be nearly as liberal as the Vatican under pope JPII was. Change usually comes about slowly, but the homos in the priesthood and seminaries are now worrying about their future in the Church, thank God.
The problem was less the papacy than the American bishops. The death of Cardinal Bernardin in 1996 was a partial turning point. He had a pernicious effect on the American Church and, of course, he had allies in the Vatican who had been entrenched by the time that John Paul II became pope in 1978. To be sure, John Paul was loathe to confront the "counter-church" in the Vatican and elsewhere, but he did persuade Cardinal Ratzinger to stay at his side. The new pope had twenty years to size up the situation. The hatred that liberals have for him is an indication that they fear the worst. Modernists like Mahoney are not outside the loop, although supreme within. But maybe the costs of dealing with the sex crimes will reveal to the world what sort of man he really is.