The 60′s: a Really Tough Time for Priests

Know this for: keeping your knowledge about the Catholic Church up-to-date.

The Catholic Church asked for an investigation conducted on the trends in child molestation cases over the past few decades in order to “help identify patterns of abuse.”

Here’s what the report concluded:

The report from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice said the majority of molestation cases involved priests who were ordained in the 1940s and 1950s, at a time when seminaries did not properly train them to live a celibate life. These men were not equipped to withstand the social upheaval of the 1960s, which was a time of an increase in sexual deviancy and crime in society at large, the authors said.

Lets just reconsider what they’re suggesting.

These men were not taught how to deal with “new” sexual deviance and … rising crime…?

So… because they were uncomfortable with all that deviance during the 60′s… they sought for solace from young boys… who they then molested…?

OR as Gawker put it:

They forgot to “properly train” the guys back then by saying, “Hey, when you see dope-smoking teens having free love in the park in your town, don’t run back to the church and molest any children.” By the time they added that section to the priest-training curriculum, well, certain mistakes had been made. It could have happened to any group of deluded, horny pedophiles.

Jokes aside. Does this sound reasonable to you?

This is a sensitive topic. So I’m going to end the post right HERE and let you mull it over.

–Pragya