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The instances of abuse peaked in the late 70s/early 80s and dwindling down to almost nothing. The majority of abuse happened and stopped happening long before the media tuned in on the story. I don’t think it was anything the Church did about it either, besides not giving in on things like civil divorce and remarriage and bc within marriage.

I bet that gay men becoming priests has declined at the same rate as the abuse did, as the gay priests that molested boys died and weren’t replaced by more gay men joining up. By the early 70s there were whole communities of openly homosexual men living together, something that never happened on that level before, at least in the modern era. They could get jobs, and in some of them they were celebrated, acedemia, fashion, politics—they were on TV and in popular culture more and more. The 80s were more extreme, the following decades more so and on to what we have today.

Now they don’t need to hide anywhere, they can get married in every state, in many areas it is against the law to ‘discriminate’ against them. If they want to get into religion, there are many faiths that will now happily put them in positions of leadership where they can be openly gay in relationships, and never have the Church’s unchanging plain teaching as concerns homosexual acts hurt their feelings. I mean, how likely is a group that still doesn’t accept civil divorce and remarriage, as well as birth control within marriage to go ahead and accept homosexual relationships? Just a theory.

Freegards

“The instances of abuse peaked in the late 70s/early 80s and dwindling down to almost nothing. The majority of abuse happened and stopped happening long before the media tuned in on the story.”

Little attention has been paid to the efforts of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict in attempting to combat the homosexual network that had infiltrated the church in the 1970’s.

Catholic parishioners became aware of homosexual priests in the 1980’s and 1990’s and fought to get them removed.

But the network of homosexual priests still exists and they still work to promote and protect one another.

Most priests are good and dedicated men. One of the greatest tragedies is that their good work is ignored and they are smeared by the evil that permeates the hierarchy.