Director at Catholic Archdiocese of NY Defends Sandusky and Accuses Brutalized Children of Seducing Their Rapists 30AUG12

AS the write up states, THIS IS VILE. Shows the US Conference of Catholic Bishops still has a lot of work to do addressing the pedophilia problem with the male lead and dominated Church in America. They need to concentrate on removing the threat of, support of and continuing tolerance of pedophiles in the Church and leave the issues of family planning and birth control to the consciences and faith of Catholic women, the mainstay of the Church in America.

 

This is absolutely vile. The interview has since been taken down, but the good folks over at the Dish recorded it while it was still available. Below is the quote by Father Benedict Groeschel, the director of the Office for Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York:

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 … It’s not so hard to see — a kid looking for a father and didn’t have his own — and they won’t be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing, perhaps sleeping but not having intercourse or anything like that.
It’s an understandable thing … there are the relatively rare cases where a priest is involved in a homosexual way with a minor. I think the statistic I read recently in a secular psychology review was about 2%. Would that be true of other clergy? Would it be true of doctors, lawyers, coaches?
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.

http://dailyagenda.org/ 

 

  FROM THE DISH BY ANDREW SULLIVAN 30AUG12

Quote For The Day II

"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 ... It's not so hard to see — a kid looking for a father and didn't have his own — and they won't be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing, perhaps sleeping but not having intercourse or anything like that.

It's an understandable thing ... there are the relatively rare cases where a priest is involved in a homosexual way with a minor. I think the statistic I read recently in a secular psychology review was about 2%. Would that be true of other clergy? Would it be true of doctors, lawyers, coaches?

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," - Father Benedict Groeschel, the director of the Office for Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
The remarks were first posted in the National Catholic Register. All links to the page seem to have been taken down since yesterday. It's a staggering insight into how the old hierarchy viewed child abuse: as essentially the child's fault and no big deal. "Poor Sandusky"? MoDo, call your office.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/how-youths-seduce-priests.html