The Catholic Church knowingly allowed homosexuals to be priests and to have ready access to innocent children fully understanding their tendency towards abuse of children. There's no getting away from this.
You cannot violate the Laws of God, or the Market, or of the Jungle, you can only trespass them to your own peril.
The RCC tunred a blind eye, when they are needed the most, and yet they will ignore this enormity as an institution.
The RCC hierarchy has brought shame to the Body of Christ.
Crack a Bible, see what it has to instruct, and follow what the Bible has to say...seems a bit difficult for my Catholic Brothers....
I would beg to differ on two grounds: first, the Catholic Church acts only through its officials, many of whom were gay themselves or sympathetic to gays. The rationale for keeping offenders in place was, they are just gay, everything will be okay.
Second, many times offenders were cleared by psychiatrists who were hired to evaluate and treat these priests. The church followed psychiatric recommendations in many instances in which abusers were kept in positions of authority.
The bishops bought into the psychological theory that the behavior of these guys was merely a lapse, to be treated the same way as alcoholism —a perenial scourge of the priesthood—removed from the scene, dried out and then inserted elsewhere after the psychologists had pronounced them “cured.” They couldn’t see the diabolical nature of these indiscretions.
Pope John XXIII issued an order in 1962 that no one with a known homosexual orientation was to be ordained to the priesthood. If you want to know what kind of Catholics caused this problem: it was the ones (prominently including seminary rectors and bishops) who did not follow the laws and disciples of their own Church: the disobedient ones.
It may not actually be the case that the Catholic Church knowingly allowed homosexuals to become priests. It is possible that these men were able to hide their homosexual desires from the church, and were later found out. It is true, as the Church has admitted, that they covered up the activities of these homosexual priest for many many years. It would also be possible that some in the Catholic Church knew about these sexual predators, but that the heads of the Church were kept in the dark. Whatever the truth, the Catholic Church is bearing the brunt of the blame for a homosexual problem. I guess "what goes around comes around" may be apropos here.