No indeed - I know it wasn't (and indeed probably isn't) restricted to the RC. I was just saying that, since RC priests were not expected to be looking for a wife (whereas other RC men were), it was a good way of hiding the fact that you were homosexual.
Given that the priests then were put in charge of adolescent boys (and indeed late teen-age boys) who were often deeply influenced by their teachers, it is easy to understand how they could also be influenced (possibly inintentionally at first) to agree to sexual acts. The more the priest gets away with this the more he might look for it and an escalation can set in. I am NOT saying this is the norm or that the children are at fault. Nor am I saying that the solution is strightforwardly one of 'loving his bride' (in this case the church) as Christ loved the church.
However, enforced celebacy for someone who is not so inclined (and posssibly someone who does not really have a vocation to the priesthood, but is using it to hide a homosexual tendency), as JJ points out, can result in normal sexual desires becoming peverted, so that someone who would not 'normally' even think of considering sex with a minor (of whatever gender he is attracted to) might well end up taking advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable position and very 'open' to him. I do NOT condone this - just trying to understand how it can come about...
As you say, the desire to abuse children comes from a disorded sexual desire; the question in my mind is what caused the disordering of the sexual desire. While there is no direct connection between homosexual tendencies and the abuse of children, there may well be one between an enforced celebacy, a homosexual tendency and the abuse of young men/boys.
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