The sex scandal and seminaries

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Have to disagree with you there. On first read, my initial reaction was - is that it? Given the magnitude of the crisis he was speaking to and the deep-rooted, decades old, unresolved issues, I was totally underwhelmed. Further readings and other commentators’ analysis haven’t changed my mind, regrettably.
 
I wasn’t around in the 1970s, but there must be a reason why the cases of abusive priests rose dramatically after the 1960s and spiked a decade later. It didn’t start there, but something happened that made it a heck of a lot worse. That song, “Sodomy” from the popular musical “Hair,” says a lot about some evil cultural forces and the attack on the church in the era. There was some sort of attempt to normalize pederasty, and it seems like that affected those priests who were in the priesthood for very wrong reasons.
 
Benedict’s essay was very insightful, and agrees with what I had previously thought. The Church really had gone “lavender” during and after the Sexual Revolution, and we’re seeing the after-effects. What don’t you agree with?
 
I do not agree that this is just a “gay” problem and think your terminology is insulting and not at all helpful.
 
I didn’t say it was just a gay problem, though it may be PART of the problem. The Sexual Revolution didn’t only advocate for homosexuality. Pedophilia, zoophilia, and others were a big part of it as well. Luckily, only the first landed, and the rest fell to the wayside.
 
Everyone needs to remember that it’s not a homosexual agenda in Mother Church that caused these problems.

It’s pedophiles that skirted through the system and were helped, by their complicit superiors, to continue molesting boys and girls.

Regardless of them being gay or straight, they were the problem, not gays.

It’s an embarrassment to Mother Church that a retired pope thinks he has the authority to place blame of his, and his administrations, failures on the existence of a minority subculture.
 
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If we don’t see the connection between homosexuality and pederasty, then we are deliberately blinding ourselves. This problem has many tentacles, but it’s foolish to deny that is one of them.
 
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I can agree that pederasty, korephilia, pedophilia, etc. are all equally related to their associated attractions between two consenting adults.

That being said, the attraction of an adult to a child is a wild perversion of attraction that naturally occurs within the brains of sexually mature people. That’s the problem, not homosexuality, or heterosexuality, or whatever other sexuality exists out there nowadays…
 
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Was this a mea culpa for Cardinal Ratzinger? After all, he was in charge during part of this period of time?
 
TrueRomanCatholic said:
Everyone needs to remember that it’s not a homosexual agenda in Mother Church that caused these problems.

It’s pedophiles that skirted through the system and were helped, by their complicit superiors, to continue molesting boys and girls.

Regardless of them being gay or straight, they were the problem, not gays.
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  1. Only a tiny percentage of priests with credible accusations are in the category of pedophile. They are very different psychiatrically. I don’t condone them. But they were “fixated” before they entered seminary.
  2. The other priests, the vast majority, abused post pubescent youths or adults. They were deeply affected by the secular culture, most of which was welcomed by many seminaries. Part of that culture did include normalization of homosexual actions.
    The former cautions against “World, Flesh, and Devil” were forgotten, and all 3 did their work.
  3. As a result of #2, there was less support for those persons, hetero or homosexual, trying to lead a chaste life. This includes development of restraint, among other things, and restraint was equated with rigidity, artificiality, even cruelty in the secularized seminaries.
  4. Seminaries should be faulted for bad screening re: pedophiles. They should be faulted for bad screening, poor doctine, and malformation, regarding the other priests.
 
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