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 :First, I seem to remember that a professor from Penn State wrote extensively about the John Jay study in some academic source. Considering that the study was done by, I think, the publicly funded John Jay College of Criminal Justice, I think the allegations that the study was financed by the catholic church perhaps less than relevant. Whoever paid for the study, the people working on the study were, apparently, some form of government employees with some degree of knowledge in the field of criminal law. And the conclusions of the study weren't such that I think we could necessarily find them to be ""self-serving"". Also, while the quote is interesting, it basically is saying, ""don't blame celibacy, blame homosexuality"", the emphasis on the first ""don't blame celibacy"" part. The quote is from a source I think most anyone would find reliable, but the nature of the circumstances of the quotation are such that I think that saying he blamed it to homosexuality might not be very clearly supported by the evidence. By saying this, I am in no way saying that homosexuality and the Catholic priesthood are disconnected ideas. There obviously is a connection, and the nature of culture of recent times may have made it more pronounced, but I can't say the quotation seems to me to be saying that the quoted is blaming homosexuality exclusively, just providing one contributing factor out of what might be several which he thinks more relevant to the issue than celibacy.   "