Why the Catholic Church Recruits Pedophiles to Be Priests

The Pope also admonished families to not take advantage of the situation, which you are doing! You should not talk about such things. It will only make things worse.

Father Carlos

organized religion is the scourge of mankind
show me an organized religion and i will show you inhumane treatment of humans on a mass level,mid-evil archaic thinking and philosophies,opression of women,hoarding of wealth,opression/rape of children and the unmitigated audacity to proclaim"my invisible god is better than yours"and subsequent raping and pillaging of the innocent.
the jews have exterminated the palestinians and relegated the remaining"palestinians" to living in a garbage dump

the catholic church /vatican is indeed the most vile backwards thinking poisonous safehouse for pedophiles on planet earth.
the fact hat they move the offending priests from archdiocese to archdiocise without any cessation of employment is the most EVIL thimg imaginable
the fact that birth control is discouraged is proof enough that these morons are simply sticking their collective heads in the sand with regard to over population
furthermore....
what on earth could be worse than sexually molesting a child?
this is PURE EVIL
and the catholic church has a lock on this evil for decades if not centuries.

Fundamental ISLAM-haha! another moronic cult where the women are treated as property,and the rules and regulations defy modern reality and modernity
lets act like its 1499!!!

fundamental born again christians are so dumb and reactionary it's frightening
they praise jesus but support idiots like bush whoose reign of terror in iraq has yet to cease

buddhism is the only one i can relate with and even then they relagate women to a minor role in their hierarchy
lets not forget the dali lama has been supported by the most eveil company in the world since the early 1950s namely our boys from LL BEAN-THE MOTHERFUCKING CIA
glad i am a taoist/satanist

The problem IS homosexuel priests...at one point about 70% of the priest were homsexuel...they were known as the Lavender Gang. The vast majority of those molested and/or abused were teenaged boys between the ages of 11 and 18. They vast majority involved homosexuel acts or molestations. If you wnat to get rid of the problem once and for all...purge the priesthood of all homosexuels. The day they do this...that day will see the end of the so-called pedophile problem in the Catholic Church...I say 'so-called' not because it doesn't exist, but, rather becasue it time the real problem was addressed, namely...homosexuel priest that prey on teenage boys in the parishes.

Myths About Priestly Pedophilia

Catholic priests are more likely to be pedophiles than other groups of men.

This is just plain false. There's absolutely no evidence that priests are more likely to abuse children than are other groups of men. The use and abuse of children as objects for the sexual gratification of adults is epidemic in all classes, professions, religions, and ethnic communities across the globe, as figures on child pornography, incest, and child prostitution make abundantly clear. Pedophilia (the sexual abuse of a prepubescent child) among priests is extremely rare, affecting only 0.3% of the entire population of clergy. This figure, cited in the book Pedophiles and Priests by non-Catholic scholar, Philip Jenkins, is from the most comprehensive study to date, which found that only one out of 2,252 priests considered over a thirty-year period was afflicted with pedophilia. In the recent Boston scandal, only four of the more than eighty priests labeled by the media as "pedophiles" are actually guilty of molesting young children.

Pedophilia is a particular type of compulsive sexual disorder in which an adult (man or woman) abuses prepubescent children. The vast majority of the clerical sex-abuse scandals now coming to light do not involve pedophilia. Rather, they involve ephebophilia — homosexual attraction to adolescent boys. While the total number of sexual abusers in the priesthood is much higher than those guilty of pedophilia, it still amounts to less than 2 percent — comparable to the rate among married men (Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests).

In the wake of the current crisis in the Church, other religious denominations and non-religious institutions have admitted to having similar problems with both pedophilia and ephebophilia among the ranks of their clergy. There's no evidence that Catholic prelates are more likely to be pedophiles than Protestant ministers, Jewish leaders, physicians, or any other institution in which adults are in a position of authority and power over children.

The celibate state of priests leads to pedophilia.

Celibacy bears no causal relation to any type of deviant sexual addiction including pedophilia. In fact, married men are just as likely as celibate priests to sexually abuse children (Jenkins, Priests and Pedophilia). In the general population, the majority of abusers are regressed heterosexual men who sexually abuse girls. Women are also found to be among those sexual abusers. While it's difficult to obtain accurate statistics on childhood sexual abuse, the characteristic patterns of repeat child sex offenders have been well described. The profiles of child molesters never include normal adults who become erotically attracted to children as a result of abstinence (Fred Berlin, "Compulsive Sexual Behaviors" in Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors [Boston: NCBC, 1998]; Patrick J. Carnes, "Sexual Compulsion: Challenge for Church Leaders" in Addiction and Compulsion; Dale O'Leary, "Homosexuality and Abuse").

Married clergy would make pedophilia and other forms of sexual misconduct go away.

Some people — including a few vocal dissenting Catholics — are exploiting this crisis to draw attention to their own agendas. Some are demanding a married Catholic clergy in response to the scandal, as if marriage would make men stop hurting children. This flies in the face of the aforementioned statistic that married men are just as likely to abuse children as celibate priests (Jenkins, Pedophilia and Priests).

Since neither being Catholic nor being celibate predisposes a person to develop pedophilia, a married clergy wouldn't solve the problem ("Doctors call for pedophilia research," The Hartford Currant, March 23). One has only to look at similar crises in other denominations and professions to see this.

The plain fact is, healthy heterosexual men have never been known to develop erotic attractions to children as a result of abstinence.

Homosexuality isn't connected to pedophilia.

This is plainly false. Homosexuals are three times as likely to be pedophiles as heterosexual men. Although exclusive pedophilia (adult attraction to prepubescent children) is an extreme and rare phenomenon, one third of homosexual men are attracted to teenage boys (Jenkins, Priests and Pedophilia). The seduction of teenage boys by homosexual men is a well-documented phenomenon. This form of deviant behavior is the most common type of clerical abuse and is directly connected to homosexual behavior.

As Michael Rose shows in his upcoming book, Goodbye! Good Men, there's an active homosexual sub-culture within the Church. This is due to several factors. The Church's confusion in the wake of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the tumult following the Second Vatican Council, and the greater approval of homosexual behavior in the culture at large created an environment in which active homosexual men were admitted to and tolerated in the priesthood. The Church also came to rely more on the psychiatric profession for screening candidates and for treating those priests identified as having problems. In 1973, the American Psychological Association changed its characterization of homosexuality as an objectively disordered orientation and removed it from the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual IV (Nicolosi, J., 1991, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality, 1991; Diamond, E., et. al., Homosexuality and Hope, unpublished CMA document). The treatment of deviant sexual behaviors followed suit.

While the Church's approach to those who struggle with homosexual attractions has been compassionate, she has been consistent in maintaining the view that homosexuality is objectively disordered and that marriage between a man and woman is the proper context for sexual activity.

(excerpted from Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis by Philip Jenkins)

"The Pope said at Good Friday Mass in 2005, "How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him.""

Pope Benedict XIV has tried to remedy that:

"Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders

Although a 1961 document stated that homosexual men should not be ordained, this was left to bishops to enforce, and most did not, holding homosexuals to the same standards of celibate chastity as heterosexual seminarians. However, in November 2005, the Vatican completed an "Instruction" on the admission of homosexually inclined men to the seminary. According to the new policy, men with "transitory" homosexual leanings may be ordained deacons following three years of prayer and chastity. However, men with "deeply rooted homosexual tendencies", who support gay culture, or who are sexually active, cannot be ordained.

In practice, several bishops have indicated that the directive will be interpreted in a variety of ways, much as its 1960s predecessor was."


The cover-up was also orchestrated by the 'Lavender Mafia or Gang':

The Face of "Gay" Clericalism

CruxNews.com
October 22, 2003

Actively homosexual priests have gotten off scot-free in the wake of the priestly sex scandals, with the exception of pederasts (who constitute the vast majority of priestly pedophilia cases).

But in at least one diocese, Altooona-Johnstown (Penn.), homosexual priests are apparently feeling some pressure.

Twenty-six priests of that Diocese have secretly formed the Priests Federation of Altoona-Johnstown. They issued a press release (May 15) wherein they note that they are "sworn to complete secrecy to avert the very real threat of retaliation by our diocesan bishop."

We got the press release over the Internet, and it was titled "Gay Priests of Diocese A-J in Revolt; Demand Bishop Conceal Molesters, Sue Catholic Activists." Surely that was not the title of the original press release, but that these 26 priests are "gay" or at least "gay-friendly" — or a mixture of the two — is quite obvious from the release.

The release says: "Whereas our bishop insists on publicly defending lawsuits against this diocese and thus increasing the threat that more names of our priests be exposed in the media, we demand that our bishop cease and desist his public defense of any and all lawsuits concerning alleged priestly misconduct and instead settle these cases out of court so as to protect the reputation and well being of those priests so named and others that may be revealed in the course of any trial. Whereas our bishop threatens and harasses homosexual priests into fearing for their office, we demand that our bishop cease and desist any and all harassment of homosexual clergy and instead work to protect the reputation and well being of clergy of all sexual orientations." As with Msgr. Campion (see the above New Oxford Note), you notice the great — the excessive and ridiculous — concern with protecting the "reputation" of suspect priests.

You also see that the 26 priests are demanding that the bishop conceal the identity of those priests accused of homosexual molestation or rape. In other words, continue the old, failed policy of paying out hush money and reassigning the offender elsewhere, maybe after a little vacation time at one of those sex therapy clinics (some of which are known as "pedophile pipelines"), which have been such notorious failures in curing or successfully treating pedophilia.

And what's this about harassment of homosexual clergy? Harassed for what? For having a homosexual (dis)orientation or for committing homosexual acts?

But the 26 priests won't just be satisfied with restoring the status quo. They want revenge. They want to punish those who oppose them.

The release says: "We demand that our bishop turn the attention of his legal representation towards stopping the hateful and homophobic actions of George Foster, Brian Barcaro, Dr. Brian Kopp, et al., who are set upon destroying the reputations of homosexual priests…." In other words, sue Foster, Barcaro, Kopp, et al. The release also says, "we demand our bishop suspend Fr. James Foster and Fr. John Nesbella immediately…."

And then this: "Whereas our bishop has ordained men to the priesthood over the last several years who are unfit to serve the modern, post-concilular church, we demand our bishop…review the psychological reports of the men ordained since 1995 and order to counseling all those who are deemed to have…proven inability to serve in the church of Vatican II." In other words, all conservative priests are to be ordered to undergo psychological counseling. This is what one reads about in Goodbye, Good Men: Conservative seminarians are ordered to counseling in order to get them to question their orthodoxy or, failing that, be thrown out.

The 26 priests also demand that the bishop "cease and desist from sending seminarians to the present rigid seminaries used by our diocese…." Of course, "rigid" is the favored code word for "orthodox."

The Gang of 26 also demand that the bishop "examine all present and future seminarians in greater psychological depth to determine their fitness and desire to serve the modern church." In other words, continue the harassment of orthodox seminarians.

But on the other hand! The Wanderer (June 26) reports that "A criminal investigation by postal authorities and state police has been launched in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pa., to determine who the priests are who have been sending threatening letters" to three newly ordained priests of the Diocese. It seems to be assumed that the threatening letters may have some connection to the Gang of 26. According to The Johnstown Tribune Democrat (June 15), the anonymous threatening letters have demanded that the three priests "leave the priesthood or face the consequences." According to the Altoona Mirror (June 18), Cpl. Darron Stratton of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the State Police allowed that the threat of "consequences" may mean an intent to do "bodily harm." Could that be why it's called the Lavender Mafia?

The press release from the Gang of 26 also says this: "We believe that it is better to have fewer clergy…than to have many rigid and juridical priests…." This is precisely the modus operandi in many seminaries. As Archbishop Elden F. Curtiss has written: "It seems to me that the vocations 'crisis' is precipitated by people who want to change the Church's agenda, by people who do not support orthodox candidates…, and by people who actually discourage viable candidates from seeking priesthood…. I am personally aware of certain vocations directors, vocations teams and evaluation boards who turn away candidates who do not support the possibility of ordaining women or who defend the Church's teaching about artificial birth control, or who exhibit a strong piety toward certain devotions, such as the rosary" (as quoted in Goodbye, Good Men, pp. 2-3).

And imagine: There are those who doubt there's a civil war going on in the Church We can talk about dissent and heresy and apostasy. But what drives it? It's primarily driven by the Lavender Mafia in the seminaries, priesthood, and episcopate. As the Anglican historian Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) said, "No man's Religion ever survives his Morals."

Before the New Oxford Review became Catholic in 1983, we were Episcopalian, and we watched the more genteel Episcopalian branch of the Lavender Mafia, with its feminist allies, take over that Church and destroy its Christian integrity.

In the U.S. Catholic Church, the Lavender Mafia — along with its allies — is still in place. The do-or-die battle for the American Church continues.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org

The problem will abate as soon as homosexuals are purged from the priesthood.
What you state is totally non-sensical. It's obvious that the vast majority of abuse cases in the Church involve homosexual acts, but, we're supposed to ignore this.

The independent lay panel that was charged with investigating the church "child abuse" scandal found that the Catholic church's problem was not a "child abuse" scandal at all, it was in fact a homosexual abuse scandal. An incredible 87% of the criminal abusers were guilty of man-on-boy incidents. As it turns out, if one were to take homosexuals out of the sample, "child abuse" rates among clergy would be far lower than the child abuse rates of comparable secular vocations, such as education. In fact, there would have been no "child abuse" scandal at all were it not for homosexual priests.

The undeniable truth is that if it weren't for the disproportionate number of homosexuals who have infiltrated our clergy, we wouldn't be suffering the crisis we're embroiled in now. We wouldn't have had to squander hundreds of millions of dollars to pay legal fees and settlements that could have been used for helping the poor, building churches and expanding the flock. We wouldn't need to wonder how much money parishioners have withheld in donations or how many simply left Catholicism altogether in disgust. We wouldn't be hearing the "you have no moral authority" argument (which will be used for generations to come) from our detractors when the Church speaks out on moral issues as an institution.

When joining the seminary, a heterosexual male forever gives up the dream of having a wife and family to go and live with men. The homosexual on the other hand gives up nothing to go and live with the same men, men which could be viewed potential sex partners. Such could be compared to putting a young hormone laden straight male into a convent full of young nuns. Having any measurable contingent of young gay men living, sleeping, showering together in all-male seminaries is an obvious recipe for disaster if the intention is to have a Godly training environment for our future shepherds.

In his book "Goodbye! Good Men", Michael Rose documents how we now have a homosexual subculture, outrageously referred to by many who exist within it as the "sisterhood". They give each other female names, fornicate in the dorms and "dress up like gays from the village" as the well-known and respected reverend John Trigilio from EWTN tells us. Incidentally, Trigilio was suspended for his comments recorded in the book by the same bishop who allowed a priest to continue giving Mass after being charged with possessing images of an adult male sodomizing a 5 year old boy.

The Catholic priesthood is becoming known as a gay profession, akin to the fields of design, retail and hairdressing. St. Mary's seminary in Baltimore is known as the "pink palace" and Notre Dame seminary in New Orleans is known as "Notre Flame". If they bother to apply at all, straight priests who don't tow the modernist lavender line at our seminaries are being persecuted and driven out.

One would have to wonder if this is how we're training our future clergy and episcopate, are we intent on destroying the Church altogether? Is it any wonder why we're having so much trouble attracting vocations?

The flock can no longer carry the homosexuals' crosses for them under the false banner of Christian charity. There is nothing Christian or charitable about destroying the priesthood Christ founded, under the banner of granting sexually disordered men a non-existent right to lead our Masses. Allowing depravity to metastasize and ruin our spiritual livelihood is not kind, righteous or holy. If we are to begin healing the earthly body of Christ, gays must be removed from the clergy the seminaries to whatever degree possible. Our clear choice is to either see that this is done or face ruination.

Felix R., et al,

I think that you're mistaken in your definitions. A primary pedophile (a psych term, which many of these priest-predators are,) are not attracted to men or women. They are attracted to children. The morphology of the child's body is attractive to them. The child's age is more important than his/her gender. As such, many pedophiles abuse both girls and boys.

The terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" are terms that relate to being attracted to *adults* of one gender or the other.

A pedophile isn't gay or straight. He's just a pedophile. That's the difference.

(I used the term "he" in the above sentence b/c 97% of convicted pedophiles are men, and all Catholic priest pedophiles are men. While it may not be perfectly accurate, it is quite precise.)

The problem is that the seminaries do *not* admit men who admit to a healthy attraction to adult men. Homosexuals by definition do not abuse children. They aren't attracted to them. They're attracted to adult men.

TK Kenyon

Totally disagreeing with you, Kenyon. I've made my point and stand by it. I've known many homsexuals and the vast majority when they went cruising went cruising for males in between 15 and 25 years of age. Anyone that knows anything about the gay world knows this...it's a given. It's a spoken truth...they don't even hide it. Come to Greenwich Village someday and see for yourself.

In answer to your' question,

"Why the Catholic Church Recruits Pedophiles to Be Priests"

Because, the Lavender Mafia is the recruiter...really quite simple.

Are Gay Priests The Problem?

Yes, when they're part of the church's gay subculture, the 'Lavender Mafia.'

12:32 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 18, 2005

In recent weeks much ink has been spilt over the ramifications of two significant developments in the Roman Catholic Church. Both the announcement of a new wave of seminary evaluations and a forthcoming Vatican document reportedly barring gays from the priesthood have been met with a torrent of criticism, much of it shrill.

Aside from the fact that both items have been grossly overblown, much of the criticism is written in ignorance of facts that would suggest these bold moves in the early days of the Ratzinger papacy might just be the proper formula for initiating a modern day reformation of the Catholic priesthood.

It is not enough to point to the recent John Jay College study that found most of the victims of clergy abuse since 1950 were adolescent boys. Revelations concerning seminary life in recent decades have given sufficient impetus to pursue an extensive evaluation of the institutions that train and educate future priests, especially when it comes to the issue of homosexuality.

Several years ago, Father Donald Cozzens, then rector of a Cleveland seminary, wrote that many seminary faculties included a disproportionate number of homosexuals. In his book, The Changing Face of the Priesthood, he commented that "straight men in a predominantly or significantly gay environment commonly experience self doubt."

In my own study of seminary life over the past three decades, I have found that many heterosexual men give up their seminary studies precisely for this reason, leaving behind a student body gradually swollen with homosexuals. I'm not talking about the presence of a few gay-oriented men who want to live chastely, but rather the institutionalization of a gay subculture that has earned some seminaries nicknames such as the Pink Palace, Notre Flame, and Theological Closet.

One aspect of this gay subculture of both priests and seminarians is that too many men who want to be chaste, whether gay or straight, are propositioned, harassed or even molested – occurrences that are more common than one might think. This doesn't aid the moral and spiritual development of the church's future clergy. Rather, it fosters a pathological pattern of living.

This is not simply about homosexuality or homosexual acts. It's about an agenda and subculture that systematically undermine celibacy, a state to which the Roman Catholic priest is called. This gay subculture is also in direct conflict with the teachings of the church. Those involved are promoting this conflict and escalating the problem.

Recent history has also shown that those seminarians unwilling to embrace the agenda of homosexual liberation in seminary life, especially those who complain about it, have been sent by authorities to psychological counseling, labeled as "homophobes" with "disintegrated personalities."

It is this same protective network that has paved the way for a variety of sex abuse scandals in the church. This network, now commonly called the "Lavender Mafia," includes not only favoritism, but also protection and cover-up. Further, its adherents will brook no dissent, and lash out at anyone who threatens them, especially those seeking to expose the corruption they sustain in order to protect their own. This was perhaps most ingloriously demonstrated by South African Bishop Reginald Cawcutt. On a Web site devoted to gay clergy and seminarians, Bishop Cawcutt expressed the hope that then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would be poisoned for his role in drafting the forthcoming document barring homosexuals from Catholic seminary life. He and other members of the St. Sebastian's Angels group accused the cardinal of conducting a "witch hunt" against homosexually active priests, actually recommending that the future Pope Benedict be sodomized by some of them.

There is no witch hunt. "Witch hunt" implies a search for something that doesn't actually exist.

The current pope elicits such strong reactions because he has consistently reiterated in clear and direct language the Catholic Church's opposition to the multi-faceted "gay agenda." Homosexual activists, both in and out of the church, are particularly put off by Benedict's characterization of homosexual acts as "intrinsically evil" and homosexual inclinations as "objectively disordered." But their problem is not so much with the pope as it is with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

The Church's Lavender Mafia is ultimately at war with its own religion. Its proponents want to be accommodated, and to be accommodated they want nothing short of a sea change in the Church's teaching on human sexuality, which is based on the natural law – not merely an opinion that fluctuates with the fashion of the times.

The Vatican realizes that an underlying problem facing the church in the United States is tied up with homosexual activism and gay cronyism. The forthcoming seminary evaluations and the new Vatican document barring or limiting homosexuals from the priesthood will not solve all current woes, but both developments ought to be welcome, especially to those who have been clamoring for action from the top.

Michael S. Rose is the author of "Goodbye, Good Men," (Regnery), an exposé of Catholic seminary life in the United States. His latest book is "Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger" (Spence).

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-rose_16edi.ART.State.Edition1.428ab0e.html


New Book Reveals Truth of Church 'Gay' Scandal

Rose's Book Portrays Homosexual Conduct as Flagrant in Seminaries

Reprinted from NewsMax.com, April 16, 2002

The burgeoning sex scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church has mystified many Americans who are at a loss to understand how this outrage could have occurred and been kept under wraps for so long.

But now a shocking new book provides the shocking answer.

In Catholic writer Michael Rose's blockbuster, Goodbye, Good Men, How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations from the Priesthood, he exposes the corruption of the Roman Catholic seminary system in the United States.

Already the liberal mainstream media does not want you to read the book and is keeping a lid on its revelations.

In full and alarming detail, veteran investigative reporter Michael S. Rose examines the root causes of the so-called pedophile priest scandal.

Rose lays bare the astonishing story of the deliberate infiltration of the seminaries by what has been called the "Lavender Mafia," a clique of militant gays, along with an underground of liberal faculty members determined to change the basic doctrines of the Catholic Church.

Rose commits the unforgivable Politically Incorrect sin by courageously laying the blame for the widespread molestation of teenage boys by priests squarely at the door of the "gay" mafia who dominate many of the seminaries responsible for the training and formation of Catholic priests.

For this violation of the taboo against any unfavorable mention of homosexual behavior that exists in the mainstream media, he is being punished by having his book blacklisted by his fellow journalists who simply do not want you to read Goodbye, Good Men, and learn the true facts.

In the book, written before the latest abuse scandals erupted, Rose insists that the alleged shortage of priests is "artificial and contrived," and the direct result of policies adopted by scores of dioceses for many years — policies that turned the seminary system on its head — and have now driven a stake through the heart of the Catholic Church in America.

Scores of honorable men faithful to the 2000-year-old doctrines of the Church have been driven out of the seminaries, which have given preferential treatment to gays and others wedded to unorthodox doctrines.

Young men who were perfect candidates for the priesthood were subjected to such ordeals as psychological evaluations by health professionals with anti-Catholic views. In one instance, a candidate was interviewed — and rejected — by a fallen-away Catholic who was a local Grand Master of the anti-Catholic Masonic Order.

Another psychological analyst assigned to examine candidates for entrance into a seminary openly advocated homosexual behavior. Dr. David J. Brown, who screens candidates for the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown in Pennsylvania "has gone out of his way to make the case that homosexuality is perfectly normal," Rose reports.
Brown publicly "argued on spiritual grounds for legitimizing homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle in the public schools." He said he was 'appalled' that the school district had excluded known homosexual speakers from Penn State University.
The problem is so widespread that, in 1999, the Catholic Medical Association asserted that "mental health professionals who do not support the teachings of the Catholic Church on sexuality have been chosen to evaluate candidates for the priesthood and reject candidates who do accept the church's teaching on grounds that they are 'rigid,'" and that "some mental health professionals do not report homosexual attractions and conflicts in candidates for priesthood to diocesan officials or religious superiors."

So pervasive is the homosexual influence in many seminaries that one candidate for the priesthood told Rose, "The issue was never one of my suitability for ordination. Rather it was that the gay clique had been given veto power over who got ordained."

Certain homosexually dominated seminaries have earned nicknames such as "Notre Flame" (for Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans) and "Theological Closet" (for Theological College at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.); St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore has earned the nickname "The Pink Palace."
In some seminaries, students openly visit "gay" bars, and carry on illicit homosexual affairs in their rooms.

Heterosexual seminarians were "propositioned, harassed or even molested," Rose revealed. At one seminary, heterosexual students were forced to submit to homosexual behavior by faculty members who used upper classmen to recruit "Fresh Meat" to satisfy their perverted desires.

Seminarians struggling to absorb and adhere to the ancient doctrines of the Church, handed down from the Apostles for 2,000 years, find themselves confronted by faculty members who openly dispute the tenets of the Church. "Many faculty members are adverse to teaching what the Church teaches, and some even find it onerous to hide their disdain for Catholicism," Rose wrote.

These are merely a few of the explosive revelations in "Goodbye, Good Men." Tragically, the abuses outlined in this book continue to this day. When NewsMax.com asked Rose if this nonsense was still going on, he told us: "Although many seminaries are 'getting better,' the nonsense is still prolific."

"Orthodox candidates are still being turned away in droves, heterosexual seminarians are still being sent to psychological counseling and booted from school, while liberal-minded and pro-gay seminarians are given deferential treatment, put in charge of others, advanced and ordained," he said.

http://www.cwfa.org/printerfriendly.asp?id=597&department=cfi&categoryid=cfreport

I know this doesn't jibe with your' gay agenda, but, what can I tell you. Sodomizing teenagers is homosexuality no matter what other label you which to whitewash it with.

Some paedophiles have a preference as to sex.

Certainly it is ot a speciality of thecatholic church. There are also in the church of England. There are many things, such as a refernce to ancient greek, mediterranean prechristian and latin-roman cultural elements that have been embodied in the roman catholic rite and which i like. One would think that the celibacy drives to various sexual troubles.

FELIX has a personal agenda against gay people, therefore he blames them for clergy abuse of kids. Felix does not understand the nature of homosexuality, that it means being attracted to other adults of the same gender, not kids of the same gender, as is true of pedophilia. Felix, I would sooo like to see the Catholic Church put all known gay priests temporarily out-to-pasture, and we would then have proof that the abuse is committed by self-proclaiming heteros like yourself. By the way, are you displaying a photo with a child to "prove" your heterosexuality? Guess what, gays can breed too. Further, the most extreme homophobes are gays themselves.
To Father Carlos: 'do not talk about such things"...so typical of the church, in order to avoid enlightenment of the flock, you always tell them to just listen to you and do not read further, do not question, do not discuss or question. So like the Catholic Church it is almost laughable that this is the ONE and ONLY sentence in that post by you.

Hey, Carlos, I bet you don't want it spoken of! You must have a very good reason for that line of thinking. You have no concern for children being raped by sick old men, but you don't want it talked about. Guess that tells us where you stand. I wouldn't want my kids or anyone else's around you. How the hell do you think things will change if you dumbasses keep hiding the filth?!

Seminaries go to great lengths to exclude those men who exhibit doubtful character traits. Despite the shortage of priests, unsuitable candidates are turned away.
"The Church" did not shelter accused pedophile priests. Some individual bishops or cardinals have been accused on doing so. Only .02% of accused priests have been convicted.
While my feelings about child molestation are made very clear in my two recent articles "Betrayal of Innocents" and "Did this person derserve to be abused?", I do not paint all priests with the same brush. Every accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Most pedophiles are married. Very few are priests or ministers.

This is a little known fact that the Roman Catholic Church doesn't like to advertise, but about 20% of Roman Catholic priests are married. Usually, they were already married in service as a clergyman in either the Anglican or Lutheran churches and then became Roman Catholic priests. Although married, they are expected to be celibate after their conversion.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, priests may be ordained unmarried and promise to remain that way throughout their career, or get married and then be ordained. Once ordained, there's no turning back. However, only never-married,celibate Eastern Orthodox priests can become bishops.

The ONLY thing that will stop this asinine behavior is extremely stiff monetary penalties and long prison terms of those at the top of the heap as well as the rank and file priests involved in this.