The issue IS homosexuality.
Where does anyone think those homosexuals who ‘hid’ in the Church in such huge numbers in the 50’s-60’s are now?
How many are Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals?
Does anyone seriously think that a gay Bishop is going to put a parish priest’s head on the chopping block when his own belongs there as well? ‘Cleaning house’ can’t just happen on the parish level, and I can’t see high ranking prelates chancing their own heads.
If you know the Bishop prosecuting you is a homosexual himself, would you not implicate him as well?
And as horrible as pedophilia is- would getting the priests who abuse children out of the Church be good enough? Is the idea of homosexual priests doing each other- or other adult men- ok? I don’t want homosexual priests PERIOD!
How infected is the Church? This denial/protection would indicate that a REAL ‘cleansing’ would result in a severely damaged Church-and that the hierarchy knows it!
I’m a ‘cradle Catholic’, but I would rather there be ONE priest per continent than hundreds of thousands that are-or that protect- homosexuals in the Church.
Bishops don't 'prosecute'; the legal system does that. Unfortunately, some folks were cowed by their Bishops into NOT pressing charges all those years ago. If more had done so, the problem would not have gotten as bad as it did.