“Who Am I to Judge?” The World’s Selective Judgmentalism

Fr H. asks a very pointed question. Why isn't the Sin-od issuing a call to listen to and 'walk together' with the paedophile and ephebophile 'communities'? They've covered all the other sexual sins, so why not these?

From Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

One can never turn on one's computer without reading a load of Stuff composed by skilled Stuff-manufacturers about our necessary openness to all sorts of minorities, especially sexual ... L ... B ... G ...  + ...  +  ... and all the rest.

In these apparently, graciously, exhaustive lists, which seem to grow ever longer, I never see the paedophile or epheberast communities sympathetically listed as minorities deserving our enthusiastic understanding and acceptance.

Why not?

Are they not human Beings? Are they not Loved by God? Are they not "Made the way they are" by God?

I do, admittedly, reject logically the idea that their lifestyle is acceptable, because I personally accept the radical Catholic assertions directing and limiting the use of sexuality. Accordingly, I believe that Adultery, Sapphism, Sodomy, Bestiality, Fornication, Masturbation, Polyamorism, Dendrophilia, Ichthyerastia, and a lot of other things are inevitably excluded by the Christian imperative of Chastity.

But I am prepared to deal humanly, and courteously to speak with, those who subscribe to those and to all other such lifestyles; and to treat them lovingly as Children of the Almighty, protecting them, as far as in me lies, against aggression in thought, word, and deed. Even German  'remarried divorcees' ... as long as they obediently pay their Church Tax ... need not fear so much as a rough word from me. I share Sir Max Beerbohm's evident sympathy for bulldogs like Corker, although, possibly, I might have advised that catholic animal to mitigate his Growl. Meden agan.

Now will somebody explain to me ...

... why those Catholics ... including priests, bishops, cardinals and popes ... who appear to entertain tolerant sentiments with regard to Adulterers, Sapphists, Sodomites, Fornicators, and the rest, seem so much more shy about explicitly including paederasts and ephebophiles among the exemplary groups whom they accept and uphold? Whom they ecclesially and socially validate ... to whom they say "Who am I to judge you?"

They seem just the weeniest bit nervous about praising and encouraging paedophilia (for example) publicly and robustly. Why?

Is there some elephant in this (rather crowded) room that, with my moral myopia, I haven't noticed?

Should I try to get out-and-about a bit more?