Or worse, those who do see, but ignore the facts staring them in the face.
Phil Lawler on Catholic Culture website:
The Vatican guidelines focus on the Church’s response to the sex-abuse crisis, whereas the John Jay report studies the causes of that crisis. In addition to its failure to grapple with the scandal of episcopal negligence, the John Jay report falls short with its failure to confront the role of homosexuality within the clergy.
According to the report, homosexuality was not an important factor in the sex-abuse crisis. But that conclusion seems to be clearly at odds with the evidence presented in the text. Richard Fitzgibbons, a psychiatrist who has treated many troubled priests, commented that that “analysis of the research demonstrates clearly that the major cause of the crisis was the homosexual abuse of males.” Read Lawler’s full analysis of the Vatican document and the 1.8 million dollar John Jay Study.
