Years and years ago it was known that the seminaries for priests were FULL of homosexuals. It had to come to fruition.
There are circumstances in the catholic church that made for this perfect storm. Priests not being allowed to marry starts it off. This is not to say that these “men” would not be assaulting boys if they were allowed to marry - I don’t think that’s the case at all.
What this policy did was open them up to homosexuals wanting to become priests. If you were a young homosexual man (especially in Europe, years back) and you did NOT want people to know, what is the perfect out? Join the priesthood. If you do that, you don’t have to explain the lack of interest in women, you get admiration and respect over the moon and back, you have trust from parents beyond reason and access to boys who look up to you and trust you. Plus you get paid to do it. If nobody finds out, you’ve got yourself a nice little perverted gig going.
Add to this the fact that the no marry policy makes the church desperate to find priests as most men want to marry, and you have the perfect disaster waiting to happen. The church knew full well they were bringing in a bunch of homosexuals - but they decided to go with the “if they don’t act on it, they’re welcome in the priesthood” approach.
Now, the perverts in the protestant church, I have no explanation for other than Satan working hard the church.
It was when homosexual pedophiles were allowed to join the priesthood when the abuse began. Time for the Curch to ban homosexuals—homosexuals are not known to be “celibate”
I grew up in the Church and the priests I knew were men, real men that devoted themselves to the Church and their flock. Think Boys Town and other black and white movies that featured a strong priest. It was unheard of for homosexuals to be priests. When the Church started doing the folksinger thing during mass, heck, after Vatican Two, the Church lost its way and homosexual pedophiles flocked to the Church.
1. The Catholic Church has trouble finding vocations over the last 50+ years because it has bent over backwards to embrace worldly things and accommodate itself to the modern world. If the goal of a religious organization's existence is to make itself comfortable in the world, it will always lose vocations to other pursuits that offer plenty more in worldly terms. Who would want to be a Catholic priest instead of a Wall Street banker, a medical doctor, or a rabble-rousing political huckster?
2. Traditional Catholic groups like the Society of St. Pius X and the Fraternity of Saint Peter that have eschewed the modern outlook of the larger Catholic Church have no trouble attracting pious, dedicated young men to the priesthood. These groups are building new churches and dealing with overflowing seminaries even as regular parishes are closing and their members fading away. Celibacy is most definitely part of the life of a priest in these orders, and I suspect there are almost ZERO cases of homosexuality among these men.
3. Priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church is what made countries like Poland so strong in their resistance to communist rule. Across Europe, Christian denominations whose leaders had family responsibilities offered almost no resistance to communist governments because these religious leaders were thoroughly compromised by their worldly responsibilities and readily capitulated to any pressure brought upon them.
Good post.
“Now, the perverts in the protestant church, I have no explanation for other than Satan working hard the church.”
Perverts can sneak in anywhere, though the churches I know of have required background checks for 20 years or more.
The issue is what happens when perversity comes to light.
Rome covered it up and moved the perverts to greener pastures - under the tenure at least 5 popes.