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morning with the regularity of terrorist activity in the Mideast. The stories
engender heuristic discussion of problems if not cognate, at least tangential.
There is a new book called "Goodbye! Good Men," in which the author,
Michael Rose, contends that individual Catholic seminaries are seedbeds
for the perversions we are reading about. In the words of one reviewer,
"Rose presents evidence that the leadership in some seminaries often discharged
men
The prominent scholar Garry Wills, writing in The New York Review of
Books under the heading "Jesuits in Disarray," speaks of the near dissolution
of the religious order in which he once served as a novice. His tone about
evelopments
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------------------------------------------------------------ In the past, Jesuit novices "offered stirring models" for students who
wanted to join them in their "high calling." But now we have the outward
flood, and other exercise grounds for idealistic energy. "Many nuns discovered
this while
Mr. Wills quotes the authors of a book who note "the gaying and the graying of the Jesuits." Notwithstanding, the remnant Jesuit leadership is relatively in high regard: "I think the church is being governed by thugs," Mr. Wills quotes one Jesuit administrator, who would, however, not say this about the present leadership of his own order. And there is this "social bond" that is "the Catholic version of the gay movement." In some Jesuit quarters you have the beginning of a new form of social discrimination: "Some of those (straight) Jesuits interviewed express resentment at being excluded by the gays." What to do about it? Tough. There is a little band there of "restorationists." But if the order's general in Rome "should try to enforce the papal ban on any homosexual activity, the already thin ranks could be considerably reduced -- gays might leave in droves, as heterosexuals already have." Author Stanley Kurtz, writing on National Review Online, addresses the
problem of a gay subculture in the priesthood by analogy. Suppose, he says,
that gays were welcomed as Boy Scout leaders and proceeded to form bonds.
Inevitably, some would engage in sex with some boys, and scandal would
follow. Never mind that this would be so only of a small minority of
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------------------------------------------------------------ "All of this has already happened in the church. Clearly, the acceptance
of celibate homosexuals into the priesthood has had important positive
consequences for these men, and for the people they serve. Yet the dangers
to the church in such a policy are also, clearly, profound. There is a
difficult balancing of goods here. But what seem to me to be the entirely
sensible concerns of those who resist the notion of homosexual priests
or Boy Scout leaders cannot be dismissed as hysteria or prejudice, simply
because not every homosexual Boy Scout leader or priest would end up abusing
boys or young
And Rod Dreher, a Catholic who has written about the church scandals,
engages Andrew Sullivan, the prominent writer, Catholic, homosexual. Dreher
excuses his mention of Sullivan's problems, intending "no disrespect."
"If I made a habit of holding myself out as a Catholic in good standing,
but wrote
"I do not believe that homosexuality mandates child abuse. I do not
believe many, or even most gay men abuse minors. I am unpersuaded, though,
that the culture of homosexuality in the priesthood has nothing to do with
the numerous
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