As a Catholic myself, I get the idea that this guy is totally full of crap.
The fact he’s on committees in the US Catholic Bishops’ Council, the Marxist joint that’s selling regular American Catholics white guilt by the pound, doesn’t make me any more sympathetic.
I lived in Boston at the end of the Cardinal Law era. These cardinals had to know what was going on.
Yes. The root of the problem is that many of them had bought into the psychologization of sin. Either they themselves were poorly catechized, or they simply lacked faith, and trusted in the world.
When psychologists recommended "rehabilitation," many bishops went along willingly. This was a gross abnegation of responsibility, since sin falls well within what should be their sphere of competency. Similarly, bishops should be well acquainted with the philosophical shortcomings of various schools of psychology. But Freudianism, Jungianism, and Behaviorism were very potent cultural forces from the '50s to the '80s. They are only now being seriously and generally questioned.