Catholic Priest Excuses Abuse: "A lot of the cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 — is the seducer."

[kpete]

[Interviewer]: Part of your work here at Trinity has been working with priests involved in abuse, no?

[Father Groeschel]: A little bit, yes; but you know, in those cases, they have to leave. And some of them profoundly — profoundly — penitential, horrified. People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to — a psychopath. But that’s not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 — is the seducer.
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[a geek named Bob]

1. WTF???

[2pooped2pop]

2. just a day or so ago I learned that the Catholic Church

officials seem to have a close repiglican connection. I see it now.

[get the red out]

3. Disgusting attitude

And I see it over and over from right wing religious types defending people who prey on kids. They blame the kids!

[roguevalley]

21. wow. I think even Jesus would bitch slap him for that remark.

[berni_mccoy]

4. WTF! The downfall of the Catholic Church is inevitable.

[russspeakeasy]

5. A disgusting asshole.

[OregonBlue]

6. This priest must be one of Paul Ryan's heroes. How long before Ryan is talking about

"legitimate" child abuse by priests?

[atreides1]

7. That's it!

Blame the victim...isn't that what they use to do with rape victims too?


Typical of a group that still refuses to take responsibility for covering up crimes against children!

[Nostradammit]

8. Father Benedict Groeschel

That is the creep's name.

Methinks he doth protest too much.

His thoughts on Jerry Sandusky -

"Here's this poor guy — [Penn State football coach Jerry] Sandusky — it went on for years. Interesting: Why didn't anyone say anything? Apparently, a number of kids knew about it and didn't break the ice. Well, you know, until recent years, people did not register in their minds that it was a crime. It was a moral failure, scandalous; but they didn't think of it in terms of legal things."

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. I'm sorry, but I think that must be a very rare occurrence indeed. I am sure that it is the adult

who takes advantage of their authority far, far more often.

[Greybnk48]

10. effing asshole.

The animal in me wants to say that maybe someone should show him what rape feels like (I know it's wrong for me to want this).

[Archae]

11. Isn't this asshole on the EWTN network?

That Catholic cable network?

[lastlib]

12. OH, FUCK!!

FUCK YOU, YOU SICK, FILTHY, PERVERTED SON OF A BITCH!!!

[hifiguy]

13. What's the difference between the Mob and the RCC?

Not even the Mob would cover up for child rapists. There are some things even the Mob just won't do.

[Zoeisright]

14. I wish there was a hell so that priest could burn in it.

There are no words for this horrific lie.

[Warpy]

15. Teenaged kids can be seducers

but they don't lust after fat old men!

The delusion of the pedophile will never cease to astonish me, that he's somehow irresistible to children. Their capacity to stick together and blame the victims is equally astonishing, but entitled men always blame their victims for their own crimes.

I think the good priest's conduct bears some looking into.

[RobinA]

19. This Was My Thought

It's perfectly reasonable to me that someone < 18 might seduce an adult, but a 14-year-old boy going after a old fat guy? I mean, WHY?

[bongbong]

16. Don't forget

The vast, vast majority of convicted pedophiles that have a identified political persuasion are repigs.

[Cleita]

17. Ugh!

I never have mentioned this before. But, I had inappropriate sexual advances made to me by a priest when I was a Catholic school girl. Trust me it wasn't my dirty bobby sox and baggy, stinky uniform that turned him on. He was just a lecherous middle aged man and he hit on many of my schoolmates, unsuccessfully. I don't think any of us were seducing him.

[gollygee]

18. Disgusting (n/t)

[closeupready]

20. Wow. What corruption. The Aztecs were condemned

for their ritual human sacrifice; seems like this is a less malignant form of human sacrifice he's defending, doesn't it?

[nilram]

22. And in ALL of the cases, the adult -- is the ADULT.

And sometimes, they're an adult who has made it his life's calling to tell people about morality, goodness, and --gosh-- just doing the right thing.