Who’s more fixated on sex and homosexuality? The Church or liberals and reporters? You might think the latter based on the hyperventilating going on over the apostolic visitation of US seminaries.
Nearly all of the articles I’ve seen have characterized it as a witch hunt for gays, but while it makes good headlines and ledes, it’s not accurate. More precisely, the visitation is looking to ensure that seminaries are actually training men in an environment of fidelity to the Church’s teachings. And since there has been a flurry of reports that seminaries have not only been turning a blind eye to homosexuality, but even promoting it in some cases, and the John Jay report shows us that the vast majority of sex abuse over the 50 years has been homosexual in nature (adult male to adolescent male and older), then you’d think it would make sense to address the issue.
That is, unless people are refusing to draw conclusions for politically correct reasons. This is the problem.
It is absolutely necessary—I cannot stress how necessary—that we do not continue to have a walking contradiction between what the Gospel teaches and what we openly allow in the ones who are supposed to be administering the Gospel.
Gay priests are an embarrassment AND they cannot, in good conscience, teach with the Church on large sections of doctrine and scripture—precisely those sections this culture needs to hear, BTW.