Not "Present Crisis" or "...Scandal;" Lingering Homosexualism!

We need to call the present problem in the Church by its name, and only thereby denounce it! Do not give in to the politically correct terminology which distorts and ignores the real problem. "Crisis" is too vague, it could mean a thousand things. The early Christian martyrs were in a crisis.

What we are suffering has a name, it is homosexualism or homophilia, if you prefer: the acceptance, tolerance and promotion of homosexuality as amoral. There is no such thing as an amoral inclination toward sexual pleasure: it is either a good inclination or a bad inclination. An inclination to sin, to any sin, is bad. Therefore homosexuality, in all it's forms, is bad and fundamental moral confusion, and an attack on the Creator in it's confusion, because it is a confusion regarding the essence of the Creator's most important work: male and female.

The problem is not "present" because the "news" reports span seven decades. Most of the homosexualism in question is long passed. And it is not a "scandal" because the exposure of a sin may be an embarrassment and it may be calumny and detraction, maligning someone's or an institution's character; but none of that is "scandal" in the classic definition of the term, namely, leading others into sin. The scandal is the homosexualism, long-term!; because that, to my mind, was much worse in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. That is what caused others to sin, every manner of sin against chastity, in the Church. The past two decades have been decades of house cleaning and we are doing a pretty good job all but eliminating the hitherto ubiquitous homosexual abuse of under-age young men.

There are just a few more lingering demons, who happen to be running things, in many dioceses, seminaries, parishes, etc., and even in the Vatican. The standard of the demon of the present Lingering Homosexualism is Pope Francis' infamous "who am I to judge," in and out of context; but especially in context, in the context in which he used it of ignoring, tolerating, accepting, and promoting a manifestly homosexual or homophile cleric.