National Catholic Register
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I was hoping that the headline I read was a cruel joke, but the subsequent scrambling of the National Catholic Register to try and distance themselves from this article as fast as they could leads me to believe that the statements it contains by a Catholic priest are genuine.
Note to the magazine. There is something called Google Cache. Read up on it.
If you don't have time to read the entire article, at least look at the following quotes from it. I think you will see why the publication is running away from this faster than schoolgirl from a spider.
“People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to — a
psychopath. But that’s not the case,” Groeschel explained. “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.”
Groeschel called the abuse “an understandable thing,” and pointed to
Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, who he called a “poor guy.”
“And I’m inclined to think, on their first offense, they should not go
to jail because their intention was not committing a crime,” he added.
“The editors of the National Catholic Register apologize for publishing
without clarification or challenge Father Benedict Groeschel’s comments
that seem to suggest that the child is somehow responsible for abuse,”
De Melo wrote. “Our publication of that comment was an editorial
mistake, for which we sincerely apologize.”
