Very possible that there were other emotional/mental factors involved. The press is playing this issue up as if it is something new, but these allegations have been out there, to the best of my memory, since the '70's. Somehow they always WENT AWAY.
One does have to wonder why it has now become such a huge scandal--did the house of cards tumble under it's own weight, or is there another agenda?
BTW, I am not in any way trying to absolve or excuse those clerics of responsibility for their heinous behavior. IMO there is no punishment extreme enough for those who abuse children.
What a great question and what do you think? What does anybody think about that important question?
Actually, it's not a scandal, a'tall.
It's simple, generic, run-of-the-mill, pedestrian-grade pro-(fill in the blank) spun-up propaganda.
Courtesy of our ol' American *clarion* of journalism...the shameless Associated Press -- that's all.
This one's even been done in the repulsive, manipultative, all-too-familiar Clintigulan mold, at that.
Familiar, & so typical of the shit we had to endure for 8 years as spewed from the imps, harpies & flyin monkeys handling The Great Liar's *business*.
Those very same warped, corrupt sycophants never went away after Clintigula left office, y'know.
"...did the house of cards tumble under it's own weight, or is there another agenda?"
~Cute.
Why?
...is there another *kind* of Homosexuality we're not aware of? ;^)