Well the church just acknowledged the connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse. So I have to give them credit. I’d give the church more credit if it would help provide funding to organizations like NARTH or funding science foundations outside liberal academia.
Ephebophiles are attracted to post pubescent males which serves two purposes. First it satisfies the desires of the homosexuals prurient interest in youth and beauty and also provides a recruitment source. Since they can't naturally produce them they need to replenish the troops on a regular basis.
Interestingly, the media was really not interested in looking more closely at the homosexual aspect of the scandal since so many of their investigators,columnists,pundits,etc. are homosexuals they were quite happy to not mention the findings and put the whole scandal to bed. As long as the scandal might serve to destroy that creepy,old fashioned band of self righteous,judgmental weird old men in skirts who led by the Pope,who led the clergy,who led the lay people on a journey back to God in heaven no story was too absurd or too old to pursue.
Once it boomeranged they couldn't accomplish that objective and they dropped it. I am sure they knew this from the beginning but as long as they could get away with calling the abusers "pedophiles" no story was too inconsequential,too vanilla,too undocumented and/or too old to make headlines because everyone knows men who abuse small,innocent little ones are reprehensible. However, when it became clear that the next step in the expose' would spotlight the behaviors and m.o.'s of the perps,(priest or the neighborhood gay guys),tra-la-la off they went pursuing,or making new news.
Many Catholics wanted the entire story to be told and a few higher in hierarchy heads to roll. Alas,it was not to be,the homosexuals circled the wagons stopping the dialog in the MSM while at the same time protecting their brothers in sin from much deserved publicity.But that darn old Church just won't disappear,so figuring that most people don't remember too much after five/six years they're dragging out again,Pope Benedict is truly a threat because he is brilliant as well as holy and has a gift for delicately,interweaving faith and reason to bring us to t/Truth.