“Hide the handsome ones.” That was what was “jokingly” said when Theodore McCarrick would visit seminaries. It disgusts me that such “jokes” — which clearly portrayed a reality — did not lead to a thorough investigation of McCarrick decades ago. The likely reason they did not was that, for decades, U.S. seminaries not only tolerated but recruited and favored seminarians who have sex with males.
https://catholiccitizens.org/views/87906/laxity-in-seminaries-as-a-contributing-cause-to-the-sex-abuse-crisis/
https://catholiccitizens.org/views/87906/laxity-in-seminaries-as-a-contributing-cause-to-the-sex-abuse-crisis/