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First of all, "poor training" and "insufficient emotional support" are not going to push a normal individual to feel up an altar boy. However, poor screening of seminary candidates for deviant behavior (ie homosexuality) will result in people who are predisposed to commit such horrible acts.
Second, the "social upheaval" of the 1960s really didn't kick into gear until the last part of the decade and into the early 70s. Most of the abuse cases came from the mid-60s.
Studies that gloss over the problem with explanations of "feelings" and "society made me do it" do not help the Church.
My personal thoughts on the matter? In the 40’s and 50’s there were many homos’ just like there are now only it was considered a bad thing by society.
Many of these men had to ask themselves, “Where can I hide what I am?” I can see some wanting to join an institution widely known for it’s vow of celibacy, thereby taking sex completely out of their lives BUT; homos’ are defined by who and what the screw. It’s in their nature to have deviant sex. When you try to stop someone or something from being it’s natural self, those urges are going to still come out and in even more destructive ways.
Add to that the institution not having a clue at first how to deal with the accusations, so they hush up the families and move the offenders around to different churches. Problem is, that is only going to work for so long because the urges on the part of the homo are still there, and his access to young, impressionable boys is still there.
In short, in my opinion (I am open to the idea that I am WAY offbase) the institution cared FAR more For it’s reputation than it did for some snot-nosed brats that clearly needed to place their church above their physical, mental and emotional health.
I DO NOT believe that is the case any longer. I believe that the church really does want to weed out the pedophiles and that they have tried very hard to address the problem of homos/pedos’ (same diff) in the seminaries, and I thank it for that. I further strongly believe that the church has stopped trying to hide/move pedos’/homos’ in order to protect their (the churchs) reputation. I mean, what would be the point now anyways, right?
The report will not spell it out. But that poor seminary training was specifically the acceptance of the lies of the sexual revolution and the liberation of sexual morality from the teachings of the Church.