It was long ago known that the applicants to the priesthood were homosexuals or it became obvious while the men were in seminary. It was temporized with, probably based on the shortage of priests and the hope the homosexual could control his impulses; he could not. I am not anti-catholic and have no doubt that the Roman Church is in the process and will continue in the future to take heroic steps to purge the institution of perversion. It is a very important Western institution and it needs to be as pure as possible as the West faces the many assaults launched against it.
>> It was temporized with, probably based on the shortage of priests and the hope the homosexual could control his impulses; he could not. <<
The homosexuality crisis occurred within the American Catholic church among priests who entered the priesthood precisely when the American Catholic church was experiencing the largest wave of vocations anywhere in modern Church history. Fully one in four worldwide vocations were American, even though only one in sixteen Catholics were American.