In an interview with the National Catholic Register posted this week, Groeschel was asked about his work with the very conservative Friars of the Renewal, a breakaway order he founded 25 years ago. The conversation took an interesting turn, however, when the editor asked about the 78-year-old's work with sexual abuse perpetrators.
"People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to — a psychopath," Groeschel said. "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."
A nervous breakdown? How many people actually have those and still can stand to hang around a teen?
Not many I would imagine
Pressed for clarification, the New York State-based religious leader explained that kids looking for father figures might be drawn to priests to fill an emotional hole in their lives.
Furthermore, Groeschel expressed a belief that most of these "relationships" are heterosexual in nature, and that historically sexual relationships between men and boys have not been thought of as crimes.
I personally am inclined to think sociopath here, aggrandising on a little self vindication.
10 or 15 years ago? This dude is smoking some serious crack and justifying it while he's doing it.
No crime, unless you count the psychological destruction of that kids mind.
Just another one of the holocausts (sacrifice or burnt offering) of the Old Testament, or the Torah as it's known in Hebrew.
"If you go back 10 or 15 years ago with different sexual difficulties — except for rape or violence — it was very rarely brought as a civil crime. Nobody thought of it that way... And I’m inclined to think
