The pursuit of wealth & power corrupted the medieval church and led to the protestant reformation. That corruption went to the top, apparently.
When corruption gets to certain levels one can only wonder at what prevents it from going higher. The apathy surrounding the homosexual issue was well known in Cincinnati (my home area) when the accusations against Bernardin, later to be Cardinal, became public. No one ever denied the culture, and it became evident that it was known by the powerful what was going on.
Northern Kentucky, just across the river from Cincy, is in the process of paying victims hundreds of millions of dollars BECAUSE their culture of paderasty was known about and apathetically shrugged off. We've recently been subjected to advertisements on TV & radio by law firms telling of the court award. The lawfirms, of course, are seeking to identify more victims, so they, too, can get their fingers into this huge financial payoff.
One can only wonder what prevented this from going to the highest levels and changing the church's historic objection to homosexuality.
Its happening in Latin dioceses all across the country. The GOA has had a few molestation lawsuits too, but I think they all involved girls, which isn;t to say that homosexual problems don't exist in the GOA. There was a terrible scandal at the seminary a few years back when an Archimandrite from Greece, drunk as a lord, attacked a Palestinian Christian seminarian. Apparently there was a little hive of these guys at the seminary, all there for advanced degrees and all from Greece. They were sent packing.
Similar case here in Davenport. There are ads on the radio, and a link on the diocese web site.
"One can only wonder what prevented this from going to the highest levels and changing the church's historic objection to homosexuality."
God did.
Either that, or the fact that the Church is led by Italians, and while Italians may be greedy and lusty sons-of-guns (hence the scandals of the past), but they don't have much taste or tolerance for homosexuality.