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Medeiros lamented that some of the men he rejected for the priesthood in Massachusetts had been accepted in seminaries elsewhere. The cardinal said he was working with U.S. bishops to ensure seminaries nationwide were aware of the problem.

This was over 20 years ago. If only they had made the scandal public then, we would have been 20 years farther down the road to recovery, rather than starting from scratch right now. Keeping the problem secret only made it worse.

It seems very clear that homosexuals will continue to attempt to infiltrate the seminaries and we must be forever vigilant to weed them out and make sure they can't get into another one somewhere. May the Lord send us shepherds who are virtuous and strong!

This was over 20 years ago. If only they had made the scandal public then, we would have been 20 years farther down the road to recovery, rather than starting from scratch right now.

I am a regular reader of The Wanderer, probably the most conservative Catholic newspaper in the nation. I read quite frequently about all this stuff throughout the 1980's. Just because the major media decides to cover it doesn't mean it's been hidden away. Alot of this stuff started fomenting after Vatican II when the lid was pulled off the discipline in many orders and seminaries. Pope Paul VI called it 'the smoke of Satan entering the sanctuary', and JPII is on record warning his bishops to get their houses in order. What needs to be remembered is that it has been foisted on us by the radical liberals, the very same ones who call Bill and Hillary their best bud's.