I was talking about the high period of clerical child abuse, viz: the 70s and 80s. Sadly the taboo is well into the process of being of being removed thanks to the media and the behaviour of those in the entertainment industry. With a majority of so-called Catholics in the US approving of same-sex relationships there is no need for homosexuals to enter the seminary to hide their sexual preference when they can remain in a world which fêtes and adulates them on account of their publicly proclaimed preference.
Once upon a time it was the prayer of every Catholic mother to have a son a priest and/or a daughter a nun. Ere long her proudest moment will be to announce to the world that she is the mother of an homosexual son or daughter in whom she is well pleased and be lauded for her acceptance of diversity, perhaps even receiving a congratulatory 'phone-call or telegram from the Pope.
One day perhaps, coming out will be a sort of 'bar mitzvah', a Rite of Passage.