I see that homosexuality (and pedophilia) are the problems brought on because the Roman church, in departing from the apostolic practice that served her well for over 10 centuries has deprived men of the God-ordained means (Marriage) of channeling their God-given urges.
In my Protestant days, a Monsignor once told me and my brothers on a retreat “the problem with your church is that you refuse to embrace the charism of celibacy and the problem with my church is that we refuse to embrace the gift of a married Priesthood”.
It is an x/y matrix or grid involving Marriage and Ordination. Some are called to one or the other—those who are married laity and those who are celibate Priests. Some are called to neither: What our grandparents called spinsters and confirmed bachelors, and unordained monastics. And some are called to both.
In the Orthodox Church we have mostly married Priests but there are some who know that they are also called to the chaste life of celibacy. They are a minority, but they are the only Priests who can be elevated to the office of Bishop.
There have been scandals, but the few have mostly been Priests engaging in extra-marital affairs with adult women. And they have been dealt with severely as the Canons require.
Pedophelia concerns children.
This is pederasty for those post pubescent teens and older.
‘There have been scandals, but the few have mostly been Priests engaging in extra-marital affairs with adult women. And they have been dealt with severely as the Canons require.“
Have you been living under a rock until today. More than 3/4th of the sexual abuse cases in the last 50 years or whenever they started investigations have involved male on male sex abuse. That is homosexuality. This is from over a thousand years ago.
The Eastern Rites in the Catholic allow for a married priesthood. Same with the Anglican Usage Rite. Come next year there is going to be a meeting of Bishops from the Amazon River area to dicuss ordaining mature married men to the priesthood.
I expect to see married Latin Catholic priests before I pass on.