I realize that most Catholics would find it incredulous that such an influential community exists among the Ordained.
But it has been that eager willingness to deny its existence, now or ever, that has actually enabled and supported the phenomenon.
And for decades, homosexuals among the upper echelons of authority have ruled and allowed their cohorts to prey upon the most vulnerable.
I know that you are probably asking yourself (as I have) how such a culture could possibly have been allowed to arise among the Ordained and risen to such heights of power within the Church.
In this article, we shall consider how such a powerful homosexual culture, clique or lobby has been allowed to take control of the Church.
For a Catholic with a homosexual orientation, the Priesthood often appears attractive, since it allows such a person to stay in the company of males without need of explaining the absence of women in his life. To others, the Priesthood is seen as a great sacrifice of one’s life, including Marriage and family, for the sake of the Kingdom. For the homosexual seminarian, however, Priestly formation can be very comfortable.
For that reason, in seminaries as well as Religious houses of formation, there may be many more homosexuals than there are in the secular world (an almost universally accepted approximation being 1.5 % of the male population).
Studies by Wolf and Sipe from the early 1990s suggest that the percentage of Priests gay or were in homosexual relationships was well above the national average for the United States.
The John Jay Report (commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) suggested that "homosexual men entered the seminaries in noticeable numbers from the late 1970s through the 1980s", and available figures for homosexual priests in the United States range from 15–58%.
The exact number within any particular seminary or Religious house will depend upon how many homosexuals are already in positions of authority and how unaware or intimidated heterosexual seminarians or Clergy are by their presence.
Along the road of preparation for Ordination, homosexual seminarians as well as their counterparts among the faculty can achieve remarkable positions of power and influence, oftentimes playing a deliberative role concerning who among the Ordained will advance to positions of authority within the local diocese, if not the larger Church.
It is not that the Church generates homosexuality, but falls victim to those with homosexual tendencies, who take advantage of the Church’s structures to tolerate their disordered instincts.
Active homosexual Clerics, be they Bishops, Priests or Permanent Deacons are masters of camouflage.
Most often, they are exposed by accident, but only after their activities have caused great harm to the Church and the Priesthood itself.
And so, knowing that they may be exposed and subject to removal from the Clerical life, they shield one another by offering each other mutual support.
They build informal relationships aimed at attaining and holding on to positions within the Church which provide power and resource.
And when they attain positions which allow them decision-making authority, they promote those whose orientation and inclination is similar to their own, or at least those who they are assured will be too deferential, weak or afraid to confront and oppose them.
In this way, positions of great leadership have been held and passed on to those suffering deeply personal homosexual disorders.
They are feckless pastors unable to speak the truth, never revealing who they are for fear of being brought to shame. Instead, they close tight within their ranks of equally impaired Clerics to insure that their successors will follow in their footsteps and protect their legacies.
Still think this is all supposition and hyperbole?
In the Conclusion to this series of articles, I shall confirm the reality of these homosexual cliques as expressed in the testimony offered by Pope Benedict XVI, who of all the Popes in recent memory sought to confront and rid the Church of this corruption.
Curiously, Pope Francis has been silent about its reality.
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