[streetpreacher]

Yes. When I saw that documentary on Akita and heard Sister speak the passages I posted I couldn't help but think of the present crisis.(Emphasis mine)

I hope this isn't taken as an attack, but hasn't this been an ongoing problem within the Catholic church?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I take the position (which I think can be argued for rather soundly) that the new homosexual subculture became more aggressive and more open in the 1970s. My father claims no knowledge of ANY homosexuality of any kind before, say, the 1960s. What changed was that the stigma of sexual misbehavior was reduced immensely by the sexual revolution. We are seeing the results of the homosexual wing of that as it affected Catholic institutions which were also liberalized during that period. The stigma against this was much stronger before the new sexual counter-culture. That's my call on this. Most older Catholic scholars agree that the post-1960s homosexual movement which entered the Church created a VERY different atmosphere among the Catholic clergy. That is an underlying theme of the book Goodbye! Good Men about homosexuals in American seminaries.

[Slyfox]

I hope this isn't taken as an attack, but hasn't this been an ongoing problem within the Catholic church?

Ongoing? No. It was not encouraged and endorsed by those in charge of the seminaries until after Vatican II when the homosexual movement made it priority number one to infiltrate all of the mainstream religious seminaries, not just Roman Catholic.