If this was a subtle point, I’d really hate to hear what he thinks about child sex abuse when he’s not trying to be subtle.
He failed at this and is obviously breginning to lose it. If you look at the incident through Christian eyes you will see things differently.
And looking at that “through Christian eyes” would be what? Is it really “Christian eyes” that sees Jerry Sandusky as being “some poor guy”? Is it really “Christian eyes” to blame the victims for not doing more to stop their abuse (and I’m not talking 18 year olds but the 10 year olds that Jerry Sandusky molested or the 10 year old altar boys that were abused by pedophile priests).
Is it “Christian eyes” that sees that “priests who were first-time abusers should not be jailed because “their intention was not committing a crime.””?
A lot of people are claiming that Father Groeschel is old and feeble and senile and sickly and some are claiming that he is confined in a nursing home, yet in the interview he gave to the National Catholic Register, he stated that “he continued to counsel priests and that he worked some 12 hours a day.”
I understand that Father Groeschel is staunchly pro-life and probably a good man, but that good does not negate the great harm of blaming the victims of child sex abuse, trying to paint them as the aggressors and “seducers”, stating that pedophile priests should be given a onetime pass, a get out of jail free card because it wasn’t their intent to commit a crime and rape a child, the first time they did it.
This I find especially grievous coming from someone who has a PhD in psychology and is still counseling priests.
The subtle point is that he wasn't talking about prepubescent boys, but about the predominant demographic of the victims of these in the scandals; teenage boys, and more specifically homosexual teenage boys.
No instance of clergy abuse is acceptable, but the so-called priest scandal is more of a homosexual issue than a pedophile issue. I know that the agenda of the left and their useful idiots, the anti-Catholics, want to limit the discussion to "Catholic Priest bad", but, whether or not that fits your agenda or if the subtleties are lost on you, it is more complex than that.
Peace be with you