True, merely re-stating the ban on gay clergy is not enough; a Holy Inquisition is needed to examine the conduct and beliefs of existing clergy. I agree that this part: the actual purging, especially in the seminaries, should be done more forcefully. However, some of it has been done and, I am confident will continue to be done, in the new pontificate.
I disagree on the conclusion that married clergy is the answer. It clearly hasn't helped the boy scouts, the public schools or the sports. It would mean capitulating a centuries-old tradition of the Latin Church, precisely at the time when the flock needs more than ever to learn sexual continence.
I also don't appreciate your tone, sir. You post excerpts from an old article while the rules do not prohibit reproducing the article in full. You attach to it your own rant, about how you left the Church, which properly belongs among Blogger and Vanity section. You then pepper your post with baseless insinuations about the Holy Father. You left the Church? Good riddance. It is faithless ignorant trash such as yourself that is the bigger problem in the Church than all the pederasts combined. Deal with your childhood memories privately, please. If you want to come back, do not think you can do so by suggesting how our Holy Church can be reformed, but rather in penance and obedience to the Church as she is; if you don't want to come back, why should we waste time conversing with you? We have more important enemies than your confused and messed up person.
How do the multitudes, the masses, compare in anyway with the hand picked celibate Priests of the Roman Catholic church?
Why do you keep saying that celibate Priests are no worse than the average Joe in the percentage of sexual diviants?