Now, granting that 2% is 2% too many, that some of our bishops are as guilty as are their homoperv sins, that some of our priests and bishops who are not themselves homopervs as well as many who are homopervs have covered up for homoperv priests, none of that requires punishing the innocent as though they were guilty.
Trust me that Catholics feel even more strongly about these perverts than do non-Catholics. After all, it is our Church. The Catholic Church will not be harmed by purging the perverts who refuse to be penitent and celibate. It will be purified.
Conservatism will be harmed by gratuitous harming of the largest Church in our country which has faithfully opposed abortion and other forms of social revolution and evils in our nation and in our world.
I don’t believe homosexuals should be clergy of any stripe. It is a sin and contrary to natural law as your own doctrine which was just illustrated to me says. I believe it is supposed to be impossible for a known homosexual to be clergy(?)
The surveys I have seen estimate that Catholic clergy is up from 20 to 50% homosexual in the US....those who answer surveys....which is anyone’s guess but I would bet low.
Those who abetted them should resign as well......all the way to the top.
It’s simply not acceptable for any church to dance around such scandal for so long....even in this latest settlement which unfortunately the lawyers get 40%, the church fought as hard as they could to seal records.
That is simply wrong. Let the sun shine on child molesters.
I know there are high ranking clergy there who have fought for a hard line on this but they still don’t even acknowledge this as a homosexual problem at it’s core. The church is kind of caught between admitting it’s a homosexual problem and then having to admit they have a lot of homosexuals. Not easy to fix in short order admittedly. Think thousands of Jimmy Swaggarts in the Pentecostal community...
I blame the nature of homosexuality for the core of this....but some in the church hierarchy sinned demonstrably covering this up or treating it like a sin-forgiveness issue rather than a crime.
Good luck......this scandal has done far more harm already to Christians everywhere and has tainted the reputations of all priests for more generations than I care to consider.
It gives our enemies a lot of “I told you so” power for years to come.
Would I leave my little boys alone with a priest? I’d be wary admittedly but before I would have thought it safe.
There are other groups that raise eyebrows too.... adult child counselors at my protestant church or camps...one always wonders why someone...usually a male wishes to be around little boys so much...most are well intentioned but when they are not then there you are and it’s too late.
Homosexuals have no place in moral authority or with male children especially early teen boys alone...