Sexual Abuse and Consensual Sexual Misconduct by Catholic Clergy: Addressing and Resolving Both Problems, by Gene Thomas Gomulka

In 1985, Rev. Thomas Doyle, O.P., J.C.D.; F. Ray Mouton, Esq.; and Rev. Michael Peterson, MD; co-authored “The Problem of Sexual Molestation by Roman Catholic Clergy: Meeting the Problem in a Comprehensive and Responsible Manner.” The priest, attorney, and psychiatrist projected that more minors and vulnerable adults were at risk and the Catholic Church could spend $1 billion over ten years in settlements and legal fees if the U.S. Bishops and Vatican officials failed to implement their recommendations to deter clerical sexual abuse. Forty years and countless abuse victims later, with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone projected to pay a combined $1.5 billion, the financial loss for the Catholic Church may be close to $10 billion. If more states were to extend their statute of limitations for sex abuse like New York, New Jersey, Maryland, California, and eleven others, the amount could easily double.

For years, based primarily on working with abuse victims, as well as accused and convicted predators, I argued that the cause for the Catholic Church’s clerical sex abuse crisis in which over 80 percent of the victims were post-pubescent males was the large number of men with same sex attraction in the episcopacy and priesthood. Insofar as “The Gay Report” by homosexual researchers Karla Jay and Allen Young documented how 73 percent of homosexuals surveyed admitted to having had sex with post-pubescent boys between the ages of 11 and 19, I concluded that by enforcing the Church’s rule of not ordaining homosexuals with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies,” the sex abuse problem would diminish.

My opinion is also shared by the current president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who, despite covering up for his predecessor Cardinal Edwin O’Brien who grossly underreported sex abuse within the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, said there is “no question that the crisis of sexual abuse by priests in the USA is directly related to homosexuality.” Broglio’s position may have been influenced by Catholic University of America researcher, Father D. Paul Sullins, whose November 2018 study presciently documented how, beginning in the ‘60s, the number of sex abuse cases increased in direct proportion to the percentage of homosexuals in the episcopacy, priesthood, and seminaries. Sullins’ conclusions, supported by a 2011 study, “Sex Abuse of Minors by Catholic Clergy,” co-authored by Richard Fitzgibbons and Dale O’Leary, refute the 2004 and 2011 John Jay Reports that erroneously argued that the abuse crisis has nothing to do with homosexuality. Those same John Jay researchers also reported that only 4% of U.S. priests were found to be predators which was incorrect when it was later shown how many bishops grossly underreported abuse. In one case, an archbishop reported two abuse victims when in fact there were over 500!

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