Solve this and we’ll be some way to  retaining RC youth.Early on, children are told they’re daughters and sons of God; valued  members of the Church. Post latency age, they discover sexuality and orientation.The heterosexual youth go on to conventional relationships, marriage and the children resulting from a healthy sexual life, all with the blessings of a relieved Church.There is no analogous path for youth who discover they are gay.As far as the Church is concerned, these intrinsically disordered souls are consigned to involuntary celibacy and left to come to terms with their “disorderedness” without any blessing.The betrayal felt upon finding that being gay means no longer being valued as a son or daughter of God is crushing.Any wonder that they leave Church? These kids are in our families.Their parents, siblings and friends see how they are treated.They all then leave a Church they now see as protecting sexual predators and abandoning them. Give your pointy hats a shake!