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Here is an outstanding interview with Dr. Leslie Lothstein who over years treated hundreds of Roman Catholic priests for pedophilia AND ephebophilia at the request of the Catholic church. This period was long before the scale of the abuse was known. It's a long interview but it dispels much of the widely held beliefs about celibacy in the priesthood and the cause of pedophilia or ephebophilia among priests and the very incorrect belief that homosexuality has anything to do with the problems. It blew away most of my impressions:
http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/081602/lothstein.htm
for example:
" You have young 14-year-olds in a minor seminary; then they move into a major seminary, and they've had no contact with women. Often these men have been told by their own mothers that women are dangerous, that they have been selected by their mothers to become the priest for the family. They have a very close relationship with their mothers. They're heterosexual but they fear women, dread women, are terrified of women. It started early in their childhood, when their mothers told them, "You're going to be a priest, that's your vocation, stay away from women, you have to be careful, women are dangerous; they may want to marry, get pregnant, have a family." So these men are brought up in a culture that's antisexual and misogynist. Then they enter the seminary, which is patriarchal and hierarchal. They are infantilized by their teachers, by the bishops and cardinals, who evoke a role of invincibility, invulnerability, omniscience and omnipotence. There's this lure to power. So these men are basically segregated from society, they don't date, so they don't develop the kind of experience that teenagers develop, in terms of normal dating patterns, whether with the opposite sex or the same sex. They don't develop the kind of psychosexual maturity they need to deal with their own urges and inner experiences. So there's no attempt or chance to experiment through dating, through meeting people, through having relationships that go on for a while, for learning about love, about what it's really like to deal with another person's needs. They're treated as very special and in fact their celibacy is treated as the most special thing ever. But nobody talks to them about sex. I have very rarely met even newer seminarians - in fact the newer ones are so conservative they don't even want to use the word "sex" or talk about it - who have been given courses on what intimacy is about, what your life is going to be like as a priest, how you're going to deal with the loneliness, long hours, and lack of friendships. "
and
"And if you look at the statistics on celibacy, it's an interesting issue. Richard Sipe in his book on celibacy and the priesthood did a study of about 1300 Catholic priests -- he's a former priest himself -- and he maintains that 2% are genuinely celibate, 18% are struggling with the issue of celibacy and 80% are not celibate. That doesn't mean they're having sex all the time or are active, but they're not celibate. The issue of celibacy is a process, its not a given, so using the term "celibate priest" sometimes is a misnomer. "
I believe a true atonement by the vatican would be to turn over the vatican and all its treasures to the people who paid for it all.