Clerical sexual abuse is not a question of homosexuality or heterosexuality. It is an issue of celibacy in the Latin Rite. And, an issue of concealment as practised by the hierarchy.
By the way, the Pope can say anything he wishes to the faithful. The faithful have every right to ignore him. And, you know...
Absolutely incorrect.. celibacy is a function of monasticism.. a characteristic of a religious vocation, not only in Roman Catholicism.. there are Buddhist monastaries and many others. It is associated with deep mysticism and communion with God through ascetic contemplation
The sexual abuse standard has nothing to do with a religious vocation. In the period following Vatican 2, and the current of the social and especially sexual revolutions of the 60s and 70s.. an organized attack from within the homosexual community targeted the Church.. by proffering candidates posing as those with an authentic calling.. but really looking for a false credibility for a single life.. and the potential to victimize young people from a position of authority and trust.
This had nothing to do with celibacy, the abusers were not celibate and had no interest in celibacy. That has been with the Church since its earliest history.. starting with the 'men of the desert' and finally being accepted as a requirement of a priestly vocation at the end of the first millennium. About 96% of Catholic priest are authentically celibate... It is the other and fraudulent 4% that wreaked devastation of the victims and the Church.
And you can ignore the Pope's message at your peril. His caveat is that you cannot incorporate a fundamentally disordered agent into the edifice laws and institutions of a nation.. a nation is defined by those laws and institutions.. without compromising the moral integrity of the entire structure. It will unravel the integrity of that framework.. and then turn on you with avengeance.
This is not an innocuous and insignificant initiative in the interest of 'diversity'. It is the opening of the gates of our civilization to a voracious predator. That is the nature of Evil.. you cannot negotiate with it.. and you cannot compromise with it.. nothing it says can be trusted.. and nothing you offer to it will satisfy it.
You are kidding yourself if you thing this will end at 'marriage'. What they want is full on affirmation and recruitment with in school and church yards into homosexuality.. and what they want is the criminalization of any opposition to that under the aegis of a 'hate' crime.. especially by organized religion.
Their are no limits to their ambition.. and they have through the sheer ignorance of our politically correct.. morally bankrupted society.. found an target that refuses to acknowledge that is is even under attack.
