[livius]

Whoever posted this is obviously in the employ of the left. If anybody reads the whole article (which I doubt most people did), it ends up with a declaration that gays should be priests and that Rome is being insanely hostile and old-fashioned by not permitting this.

No sin ever going to be stopped all the way. The Devil goes about like a roaring lion, and sin enters anywhere it can. During the 1960s and 70s, the authority structure of the Church broke down, and a lot of these people got into the priesthood at that time and then rose through the ranks and, like all gays, promoted the brotherhood.

This is a bad thing and the Church knows it and has been trying to stop it for years. JPII was a lousy administrator, although even he managed to get some procedures in place for reviewing seminaries and religious orders. However, BXVI has done a lot, and he’s the one that Newsweek is trying to stop.

[Godwin1]

What this is about: the Catholic Church continues to hold that homosexual acts are inherently “disordered” and “unnatural.” It bases its teachings on Natural Law and Scripture. Its teachings lead it to oppose both homosexual” “marriage” and homosexual adoption.
The “most priests are gay” canard is intended to discredit the Church's opposition to the homosexual agenda by casting it as “hypocritical.” In truth, the ratio of homosexual priests is no greater than that of this affliction in the general population. More likely the ratio is smaller. But that will not deter Newsweek or other MSM carriers of the homosexual agenda.

[MarkBsnr]

Whoever posted this is obviously in the employ of the left. If anybody reads the whole article (which I doubt most people did), it ends up with a declaration that gays should be priests and that Rome is being insanely hostile and old-fashioned by not permitting this.

True. However, I think that any incidents are too many, and that this is useful to remind Catholics that they need to watch the clergy a tad closer than they have in the past.

No sin ever going to be stopped all the way. The Devil goes about like a roaring lion, and sin enters anywhere it can. During the 1960s and 70s, the authority structure of the Church broke down, and a lot of these people got into the priesthood at that time and then rose through the ranks and, like all gays, promoted the brotherhood.

The Lavender Mafia did great harm.

This is a bad thing and the Church knows it and has been trying to stop it for years. JPII was a lousy administrator, although even he managed to get some procedures in place for reviewing seminaries and religious orders. However, BXVI has done a lot, and he’s the one that Newsweek is trying to stop.

I know, but this article ultimately fails to do that. All that's going to happen is that the people will get more riled up and be much more likely to turn in priests for bad behaviour. I encourage it. The Orthodox do not have the problem to the extent that the Latins developed in the 60s and 70s precisely because they beat their clergy in the streets with sticks when they depart from Orthodox Christianity. We need to raise our behaviour to their level.