According to the news magazine "Profil," 40,000 photographs and numerous films containing "partially depraved sexual depictions" were seized on computers at the St. Pölten seminary. In addition to sexual intercourse with children, the photos allegedly also showed homosexual acts between seminary participants and their superiors. Bad enough on its own. But then the reactions to it are pretty strange:
Everything related to homosexuality or pornography has no place in a priestseminiary, the statement read. - So sexual intercourse with children does have a place in priesterseminaries? Is homosexuality something bad? That's a funny sentence.
However, the responsible Bishop Kurt Krenn sees it differently. While he confirmed to the ORF that he had seen a photograph in which seminary director Küchel touched another clothed man's genitals, and that deputy Rothe was shown sharing an intimate kiss, he argued that this was in no way "something to do with homosexuality," but rather "boys' foolishness." - he really takes the cake with this one. Yeah, just boys' foolishness. Sure. And once again it seems that homosexuality is much worse than the aforementioned abuse...
Somehow the whole thing is pretty absurd and dishonest. But the church will sweep it under the rug again...
At tagesschau.de - The news from ARD you can find the original article.