[RobbyS]

no such flight in the late sixties, early seventies I talked to a rector of a seminary who became a military chaplain, and he told me that he lost 200 students in a single semester,and that this was nothing unusual. Many of these guys were told when they came in that the celibacy rule was about to be relaxed. After Humanane Genesiae it became clear that the revolution had been deferred.

[ultima ratio]

You said, "encouraged by their parents." That was what I was reacting to. In point of fact, the cultural changes let loose by VII were so shocking and so absolute that it is a wonder anything was left in the Church after the tsunami hit. Nuns threw off their veils, dyed their hair blonde and started reading sexy novels. Priests ran off with nuns in droves. Jesuit scholastics set up a seminary in midtown Manhattan, complete with a saloon-like room with a permanently open bar. Nobody bothered with regular prayers, let alone the wearing of cassocks. In other words, discipline collapsed. Is it any wonder the gays felt they also had the license to do whatever they wanted?