" Just another day in this springtime of the Catholic Church."
Looks like that springtime of perversity was going strong in the '50s, and maybe earlier ... but the earlier victims are conveniently dead. The difference between now and the '50s is that the perversity is being uncovered and dealt with. It casts clearer light on the Papal directive in 1960 that fags were not to be admitted to seminaries or to be ordained. There appears to have been a good reason for the Pope to issue that directive.
The lack of priests and the consequent closing (or in my diocese, delay in opening) of churches is directly related to delay in purging the priesthood of poofters. See "Goodbye, Good Men" for details.
Some folks like to blame the Vatican II Bogeyman for all evil in the Church. Trouble is, the evil that they are rightly protesting is older than Vatican II. Some folks are uncomfortable with that fact. They shouldn't be. The Truth will make you free.
That said, there is no arguing that they were nowhere near as prolific as they've become. Whether or not that's a direct result of V-II is hard to determine. In fact I would be inclined to believe that as problematic as Vat II is, in and of itself it doesn't have much to do with prolific faggery.