Featured Catholic Abuse Scandal was Primarily Homosexual

The church faces a fundamental problem with its
requirement that clergy be celibate. This goes strongly
against what it is to be human. So recruits are not
going to be sexually normal in accepting & living
that life.
Add to this the church's secretive hierarchical structure,
& it's a continuing recipe for abuse of children. The
church says it's investigated itself, & fixed the problem.
Yeah....right.

 

Must it be a lie rather than a disagreement?
It's ironic that for centuries it's been the clergy & church
who've been lying about raping children, & then blaming
the children. So accusations of dishonesty ring hollow.

The church says it's eliminated abuse.
Yet the fundamental problems remain.
This warrants skepticism.

 

I've nothing to add.
May others weigh in.

 

Among the extremely small percentage of Catholic priests who ever engaged in the sexual abuse of another human being… why is it they are almost exclusively homosexual?

 

Well since the report you refer to was published in 2004, i.e. 18 years ago, it's hardly surprising the events it relates to took place more than 20 years ago. Is there really no more recent report than this?

It would be useful to know how many of the victims were over 18 years old and how many were minors. Does the report contain this information?

 

Because the priesthood is restricted to celibate males, of course. The prospect of an all-male environment for the whole of your life is more offputting to heterosexual men than to those with homosexual inclinations. (And then there's all the dressing up, of course.)

 

So what was the reference to 2004 then? And have you a link to the report you are referencing that works? (I tried the link in the OP and it was "empty".)

And how many of these 22 abuse cases involved minors?

 

I wonder if young Catholic men wrestling with homosexual
feelings see the priesthood as a way of coping with their
orientation...one which must be denied. By swearing off
sex, perhaps they imagine a way of resisting temptation,
purging their sinful desires, & practicing penance.
But many later discover their feelings are not so easily
denied, & become expressed in heinous ways because
normal relationships are impossible. Children are vulnerable,
offering the secrecy that adults wouldn't.

 

It's an environment remarkably similar to prison,
wherein even hetero males have homo sex.

 

Can you reply to my questions, please, or provide a link to whatever it is you are referencing, so we can see for ourselves?

 

Do you have another source? Twice your link failed to download.

 

Now I see. Clearly a homophobic slant. Nice try.