you're missing the point. First, the percentage of bishops and cardinals who looked the other way is way over 5%. In my home diocese of Green Bay, Bishop Wycislo looked the other way many times and moved a monster like Father John Patrick Feeney from parish to parish, where he did the same thing over and over again. Feeney is now serving what amounts to a life sentence, thank God and the District Attorney. No thanks to the Catholic hierarchy.
Archbishop Weakland of Milwaukee is another scum-sucking bottom-feeding queer who allowed all all sorts of abuse to go on. That lowlife finally was forced out due to giving Diocese money to his rent-a-boy. Note well the role of the laity in all this - they only gave a damn when their money got messed with.
And way more than 5% of Catholic priests, at least in the States, are of a homosexual orientation - and this in the teeth of long established Church directives that homosexuals are not to be admitted to the seminary. Again, the hierarchy makes rules it has no intention of keeping. It is precisely the bishops and cardinals and the Popes who appointed them who are to blame for all of this.
I stand my my assertion that no decent person can be associated with scum like Law, Weakland, Mahoney, and on and on. I can't even appear to be associated with that sort of evil.
No amount of cowardice, foolishness, or any other vice on the part of bishops can ever make it right to slander good priests -- which is the vast majority of them -- as child molesters, sorry. So stop doing it.
Archbishop Weakland of Milwaukee is another scum-sucking bottom-feeding queer who allowed all all sorts of abuse to go on.
Indeed. But for most of his career, what we knew about him was that he was a fluffy liberal who wreckovated churches and taught mush. And good priests and orthodox faithful in Milwaukee did their best to stop his heterodox interferences with the faith.
And way more than 5% of Catholic priests, at least in the States, are of a homosexual orientation - and this in the teeth of long established Church directives that homosexuals are not to be admitted to the seminary. Again, the hierarchy makes rules it has no intention of keeping.
More like Rome makes rules that the American hierarchy had no intention of keeping (and says as much). It's not Rome's fault that they said in 1962 that homosexuals didn't belong in the priesthood, and the American bishops basically said back to them, "MYOB".