Conservative Catholics Call for Purge of Gay Priests in Light of Sex Abuse Scandals
20th August 2018
Good luck with that. ‘Conservative Catholics’ have yet to get anything that they wanted out of the church hierarchy.
The Roman church has had a shortage of both priests and nuns since at least the 1970s. I have no evidence on which to base an opinion, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that at least one of the motives in the kid-glove treatment of priests accused of sexual abuse was the fear that cleaning house would leave the house rather empty.