It looks like it wasn’t a good idea to send young teenage boys into an all male environment for seminary school.
This was where many of the abusers came from.
They had homosexual experiences at these schools - sometimes in the form of abuse from teachers or priests - but also experimentation with each other.
When they became adults and were ordained - the roaring 60’s gave them all the “excuses” they needed to justify their treatment of altar boys.
Is this a catholic problem? No - not in the sense it has anything to do with Church teaching.
But - it was catholics who set up this arrangement and unwittingly contributed to the problem.
Is it a gay problem? Sure...but it also points to that mysterious origin of same sex attraction....if these men had not been placed in that situation - would they have developed normal heterosexual feelings?
Well, the English public schools had such problems, but the seminaries were better monitored. The main malefactors were the seminaries that during the ‘70s dropped anl effeort to weed out students who were too “friendly.” in large part because they needed to keep their numbers up.
The church’s view of these incidents was largely canonical: prayer, forgiveness, and reconciliation were all that mattered.
Criminal justice was shunned as a kind of vengeance, an expression of anger to be avoided.
In the end, they simply couldn’t practice their faith AND take the needed steps to protect children - let alone compensate those already abused.
If not for legal rulings and general public outrage, the church to this day would be protecting abusive priests, and telling victims to go pray.
I’m afraid you know very little about the subject. All-male seminaries as a CAUSE of same-sex attraction? Try the FAMILY OF ORIGIN if you are looking for the dysfunctions and pathologies that foster same-sex attraction. Men go into the seminary far beyond the developmental stage where same-sex attraction becomes established.