No one knows the exact number of homosexual clergy in the church. It's a difficult thing to confront. Rarely does one have more than just a suspision. It's uncomfortable to ask and even if you do, there is no gaurentee the person will answer honestly.
There is a report out theroising the reason Catholic Church leadership includes homosexuals is because John Paul II refused to believe reports that potential clergy held that orientation. A Vatican source disclosed to why John Paul II may have discounted the charge of homosexuality.
"Whenever Vatican investigators brought the results of their vetting process regarding an individual's candidacy for bishop, cardinal or other office, and they revealed he was a homosexual, John Paul II would refuse to believe it. He did so because accusing someone of homosexuality was a standard practice of the Communist government in his native Poland regarding anyone it regarded as an enemy of the state. From his ordination as a Catholic priest in 1946 to elevation to Archbishop of Krakow in 1963 and Cardinal in 1967, the then Karol Wojtyla witnessed this personal destruction repeatedly. So traumatized, he summarily dismissed such accusations as pope, and would approve the elevation of anyone so accused. "
There is now some evidence that things will be different with Benedict XVI. Writer Andrew Sullivan denounced the new pontiff as a 'Grand Inquisitor' who had 'declared a war on modernity' and would launch an 'attack on individual freedom.'
Yes, the famous commentator who once pretended to be conservative has figured it out: the Catholic Church is now going to be in forthright moral opposition to the 'modernity' of homosexual priests and the 'individual freedom' of the clergy-sex scandal that has plagued the church.
Noting that in his Good Friday homily soon-to-be pope Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger condemned the "filth there is in the church," It's believed the pontiff "will not tolerate homosexuality's presence in the church. Let us pray that Benedict XVI is going to give people what they spiritually hunger for and no longer find in their pews today: a firm place to make their moral stand. This pope is going to regenerate the moral revival of Christianity – to the great benefit of all Christendom, to the great benefit of Western Civilization, and to the great frustration of its enemies.
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