In fact, it is not an anomaly, but the way of things within the papacy and it always has been.
From centuries ago when Rome castrated young boys for its choirs, a hierarchy of men who shun marriage and family and children is conducive to all sorts of sexual sins.
This is not just a homosexual problem. It is a problem of a priesthood which is now and has been for centuries filled with men who consider themselves to be "another Christ."
And thus, they believe they are "entitled."
Origen castrated himself, a self made un-man? and Ambrose forbade married bishops conjugal relations. sort of a Platonic arrangement as it were.
No, it’s not a new scandal but easy communication and the waning deference of the secular world to religious organizations means it’s more difficult to keep the lid on.