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Among those issues is one that no one in the Catholic hierarchy seems eager to investigate: the extent to which there are gay networks operating within the American priesthood, its seminaries and chanceries, and within the Vatican itself. And to what ends? Perhaps the hierarchy is afraid of giving aid and comfort to right-wing zealots who would like to use the McCarrick scandal as an excuse to out and purge all homosexual priests and bishops. There can be no excuse for such a purge. We have all met gay priests who live chaste lives and honor their vows of celibacy, just as we know there are more than a few heterosexual priests who fail to honor theirs. But it wasn’t just clericalism that allowed McCarrick to abuse seminarians and young priests for decades, even though his behavior was widely known within clerical circles. And it wasn’t just his ecclesiastical clout that provided him protection. It was networks, too.
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Bee here:
This article still doesn't get to the real problem. It sounds like more damage control by Left leaning people who write about the Church.
"Among those issues is one that no one in the Catholic hierarchy seems eager to investigate: the extent to which there are gay networks operating within the American priesthood, its seminaries and chanceries, and within the Vatican itself. And to what ends? Perhaps the hierarchy is afraid of giving aid and comfort to right-wing zealots who would like to use the McCarrick scandal as an excuse to out and purge all homosexual priests and bishops. [Yeah. That's what it is...]
There can be no excuse for such a purge. [Why am I not surprised....?]
We have all met gay priests who live chaste lives and honor their vows of celibacy, just as we know there are more than a few heterosexual priests who fail to honor theirs."
No. Not really. A homosexually inclined priest living a chaste life and honoring his vows of celibacy is simply a priest, not a "gay priest."
But here's the real rub for me: homosexual attraction is a disorder that is only exacerbated in all male company. Why would anyone think one can place a man with this affliction in the company of morally upright, intelligent, often attractive, men and expect him to fight the attraction he will surely have? It would be like housing a heterosexual priest in a convent with nuns his age, living on the same floor in one of the rooms of the convent, sharing work, meals, recreation, travel, and daily life with each other. How long would would it be before he would fall into sexual sin, either mental or physical?
[Eye roll.} Get real.
God bless.
Bee
Bee,
You nailed it.
I still pray for the young priest that the Gay Mafia in Chicago has tried to destroy.
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