[dmz]

You left out of your summary, though, one very important fact, the when.

Things were starting to go sour in the 1950's, which is good bit earlier than most would like to admit. It really means also that the baby boomers, who are blamed for almost everything rotten in Denmark (so to speak), simply continued that which was already starting to go bad. There were no baby boomers in seminaries in the late 50's as they were too young.

[cebadams]

>> Things were starting to go sour in the 1950's

Agreed. Some like to think that things went south after or as a result of Vatican II but the attendees at Vatican II were clearly born prior to the 1950s.

[RobbyS]

The so-callled Greatest Generation is responsible for much of this mess. They did not pass on the faith of their parents but spoiled their kids,choosing to be Americans first and Catholics later.

[Jim Noble]

You left out of your summary, though, one very important fact, the when.

And also the who.

It is no accident, I am sure, that so many of the most egregious offenders were from the St. John's Seminary in Boston, nor that the first treatment center for homosexual priests who acted out with adolescent boys was set up in New Mexico by the Boston Archdiocese-in 1948.

Who was Richard Cardinal Cushing, anyway?