Paul Likoudis contends, in AMCHURCH COMES OUT, that from the mid-1950s through the 1960s, a number of highly unsuitable candidates were promoted to the episcopate and other leadership positions within the Church – unsuitable because of their perverse sexuality. From the 1960s on, the establishment of the bishops- conference and the mushrooming growth of its bureaucracy offered all the more opportunity for such persons to move into administrative positions. Once entrenched, these men naturally sought to further the careers of others of like mind, and furthered as well a revolution in sexual attitudes which most Catholics never saw coming.