I think the biggest factor is that that gay men quit joining the priesthood so when the old queens started dying off they weren’t replaced. I’m not sure any new discipline contributed to the lesser instances of abuse, besides JPII demonstrating that he wasn’t going to relax the teaching of the Church as concerned things like bc within marriage, civil divorce and remarriage and the discipline of celibacy.
By the early 70’s there were whole communities of openly homosexual men living together in general society, something that never happened on that level before, at least in the modern era. They could get jobs and be openly gay, and in some of them they were celebrated, academia, fashion, politics—they were on TV and in popular culture more and more. The 80’s were more extreme, the following decades more so and on to what we have today. Now there are something like 18+ states with ‘gay marriage’ and in many areas it is illegal to ‘discriminate’ against them.
Now if they want to get into religion, there are many faiths that will eagerly and specifically put them in positions of leadership, where they can be openly gay in relationships, and never have the Church’s unchanging plain teaching as concerns homosexual acts hurt their feelings. I mean, how likely is a group that by the early 70s still didn’t accept civil divorce and remarriage, birth control within marriage, and kept the discipline of celibacy to go ahead and accept homosexual relationships? That’s why the lavender mafia absolutely hates the discipline of celibacy and constantly howl for it to be lifted, they look at it as one step towards acceptance of the active homo lifestyle, in my opinion.
Freegards
Emissaries were sent to all the seminaries to check them out. Yes, the homosexuals were cleaned out.
Any straight young man now applying for the priesthood must undergo a two-day psychological exam, parents are questioned, priests recommending the individual are questioned, and the person applying probably goes through four to five different interviews.
It’s not an easy entrance exam — if you want to say it that way.