Remember the priest who blamed kids for seducing priests

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http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/08/catholic-group-apologizes-for-those.html

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/08/father-benedict-groeschel-you-have-it.html

"People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to [commit child molestation] — 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.

"Well, 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.

"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, on their first offense, they should not go to jail because their intention was not committing a crime." - Father Benedict Groeschel, of the Archdiocese of New York, speaking to the National Catholic Register.

well it gets better or worse depending on your meaning

It turns out that he actually founded Courage which is the Catholic ex gay ministry

Box Turtle Bulletin notes that Groeschel isn't just an everyday priest, he's the founder of Dignity Courage, the Catholic Church's "ex-gay" ministry. Groeschel also wrote a book advising gay Catholics on how to live to a live of tortured, unloved celibacy.

Courage, try chutzpah.

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1. This man shouldn't be a priest if he thinks like this. I come from an Italian background and

my relatives are very loving. Even the males when we get together hug each other and kiss each other on the cheeks. Nothing is meant by it other then we love each other. I dunno know this man shouldn't be a priest.