The Church has tried to treat the sinners, of which she is filled.
The Church accepts that some do suffer from proclivities that are not heterosexual, but just as the Church espouses devotion to one’s spouse, and virtue among the priesthood, the Church also espouses that a man with proclivities that are irregular (not heterosexual) must also rise to virtue and abstain from acting on these attractions.
It is a mistake to accept gay men into the priesthood wholesale. I suspect that it may be a very few who might be so devoted to God that they are supernaturally made able to stay loyal to their vows, while in the constant company of other men in Seminary.
It is very bad what happened in those decades in the Catholic Church and in the Seminaries in the West, when in some places normal heterosexuals men eschewed the priesthood and left Seminary, over the tolerance and in some cases the encouragement of gay men seeking the priesthood.
Terrible. The Church is still suffering repercussions from such sinful oversight and naivety on the part of others, who thought the scandalous could be cleansed with “modern psychology”. Oh, me.
The Catholic Church should allow married clergy. In fact this is allowed in the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church and even encouraged in the Orthodox Church.
Such an action would go far towards flushing out homosexual priests.
However, in some Protestant churches that allow married ministers, homosexual ministers are still a serious problem.
Christianity as a whole is an interconnected organism. When there are problems in one Christian denomination, these tend to pop up also as problems in others.
While homosexuality can be a genetic issue, a great many homosexuals acquire this vice through exposure to it and permitting openly homosexual ministers and priests creates a broodery for new recruits to this vice as these openly homosexual individuals proselytize their aberrant lifestyle.
In my opinion, you can’t be a Christian if you reject Old Testament condemnation of homosexuality, reject the concept that marriage is between one man and one woman, support and promote abortion except in very limited circumscribed instances, reject the personality and existence of Satan, reject the reality of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, and question the immortality of the soul or the existence of a Supreme Being and Christ as God or reject the acceptance of the Bible as the prime source of religious direction. I think all of those qualifications apply to nearly all Christian denominations as followed from the inception of Christianity through the early and mid 1900s.