He’s always been insufferable, but this is just eye-bleedingly infuriating.
Like most committed modernists and leftists, he’s a VERY sick man:
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For Purity and Tradition in Catholicism
He’s always been insufferable, but this is just eye-bleedingly infuriating.
Like most committed modernists and leftists, he’s a VERY sick man:
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FR. GROESCHEL UNDER FIRE
August 30, 2012
www.catholicleague.org/fr-groeschel-under-fire/
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by Father Benedict Groeschel in the National Catholic Register regarding the sexual abuse of minors:
A quarter century ago, Father Groeschel and seven other priests broke away from a religious community to found the Franciscan Friars of Renewal. His service to the Church over the past half-century has been nothing less than heroic. His ministry to the least among us is especially noteworthy.
Father Groeschel holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University, and has put his training to work by counseling some of the most mentally and socially challenged people in our society. In addition, for the past four decades he has been screening men for the priesthood, weeding out those who should not be ordained. His record is impressive.
In a recent interview, he hypothesized how a young person (14, 16 or 18, as he put it) could conceivably take advantage of a priest who was having a nervous breakdown. He also referred to Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced Penn State football coach, as “this poor guy.” For these remarks, and related comments, he is now being labeled as a defender of child abuse.
The accusation is scurrilous. In the same interview, Groeschel emphatically said that priests who are sexual abusers “have to leave.” His reference to Sandusky was exactly the way a priest-psychologist might be expected to speak: “poor guy” conveys sympathy for his maladies—it is not a defense of his behavior! Indeed, Groeschel asked, “Why didn’t anyone say anything?”
Groeschel is nearly 80 years old. A few years back, he was almost killed in an auto accident that left him disabled; it has definitely taken a toll on him. I have known him for two decades, and recently spent an afternoon with him. I’ve read his books, listened to his tapes—on sexual abuse—and have come to know a great priest. To condemn him for one part of one interview is wholly unjust.
Donohue is the same blowhard who defended Donna Cardinal Wuerl, from “attacks” by the “Catholic Right”, for suspending a good priest who refused to give Holy Communion to a publicly-proclaimed practicing lesbian Buddhist.
www.catholicleague.org/cardinal-wuerl-attacked-from-the-right/
Don’t get me going again. You ever wonder how a cocker spaniel feels when you’re bouncing a tennis ball in front of him? Ugh. Then Tom juices it with Donohue’s defense. Seriously!
Google is reminding us that Star Trek first aired 46 years ago. I had to get my bedtime extended. The reason I bring it up is because of Serv’s title. It reminded me of something I think Spock said, “In an insane world, a sane man would appear insane.” Some days I think I am insane.
The “apologies” of both Fr. Groeschel and EWTN are as offensive as the original scandalous remarks, if not more so. Trying to pass this off as the result of “mental and physical deterioration” just does not ring true. What he said was the exact “reasoning” used to excuse predatory homosexual infiltrators for decades, and is still part of the modernist mindset that seeks to find rationalizations (flimsy though they are) needed to avoid facing the root of the clerical abuse scandals — namely, homosexuals in the clergy.
The National Catholic Register did us a favor in exposing this “blame the victim” attitude among the modernist clergy (surely Fr. Groeschel’s accidentally revealed honest opinion is not his alone) ; why would they apologize for this? Disgusting! If EWTN wants to avoid additional “apologies” in the future, it shouldn’t replace him with another of his order; they’ll have to put every one of those guys on “tape delay”, or be ready for another forced host change.
As usual, our great sage, Glornt, has put the matter into sharp perspective.
The rot has gone untreated for so long that, as John Vennari put it in one of his speeches of more recent vintage, “The new norm is the old abnorm”.
Nothiing is more inimicable to Catholicism than comfy nostrums that wouldn’t harm a fly.
I am most grateful that way back in the day when I served the True Mass, the priests were MEN, not wussified emcees who saw no wrong and dared not speak up, even if they had. It made difference to a youngster up there on the altar, next to an actual, for real alter Christus AND the True Christ at the moment of consecration.
Fortunately, there remain MANY fine priests in the Novus Ordo regime who do know what is good and holy, and what is not. And they are not afraid to preach it, either.
And, to its credit ( the massive errors Glornt mentioned, above, notwithstanding ) EWTN does manage to even put some of them on the air.
Nevertheless, as long as Colin Donovan, Scott Hahn and the rest of the “awesome theologians loyal to Rome” remain as influential as they are within the network, the “orthodoxy mix” will always be problematical.. That Groeschel has finally been shuttled off to the funny farm is good and needs to be applied to others. But, of course, that won’t happen quickly, easily or happily.
Dear Servitium,
The language you have used in your posting about Father Benedict is a horrific example of an un-Catholic, un-Christ-like lack of charity. It should NEVER be used, even of the worst sinners let alone an old man clearly showing signs of mental deterioration. Father has served Our Lord generously and faithfully throughout his priesthood; he has been part of the reform of the renewal of religious life — and he has written [among many other books] one of the best books on chastity available. And that book, I might add, is a foundation stone for the “Courage” ministry.
Think of the kind of charity you would want practiced towards your own parents if they began to show signs of Alzheimer’s, senile dementia, or something similar — and then PRACTICE THE SAME TOWARDS OTHERS.
If any of us want to be worthy of the name “Traditional Roman Catholic,” we had better be concerned with the practice of charity; Christ had harsh words for those who failed in this regard.
Satan is always trying to destroy unity in the Church, whether on the doctrinal level or on the level of Christian charity. RESIST HIM!
Pig is uncalled for, insane might underestimate his propensity for evil, but the rest fits. Understand Father, if Fr. G. is senile (I doubt it), then his comments aren’t a gaffe, but rather, they reveal how he really thought. Then shouldn’t we let all EWTN viewers know that their beloved teddy bear was a rabid enemy of the faith all along?
Let me repost my comment from the original article:
I’m not surprised. I’d guess Fr. G. is a Weakland fan. Weakland gets the Linda Ronstadt award for covering “Poor, poor, pitiful me. Oh! These boys won’t let me be! Lord have mercy on me.” Now G wants to sing harmony.
Fr. G. is an arch heretic, and I hold him responsible, along with fag Weakland, for sealing my father’s loss of salvation. My dad almost did RCIA with mom (Mom is Catholic). But they would watch EWTN. Dad LOVED Fr. G. See, my dad was a Lutheran syncretist. Fr. G repeatedly spoke of his good Jewish and protestant friends. He assured his listeners that Jews and prots go to heaven. It’s no consolation to think that my dad will have eternity to stomp on G’s head.
Re: Weakland. I’m from Milwaukee. In the 90′s, Weakland visited my dad’s ELCA lodge and told them that Catholics could receive communion there. Unreal.
Yes, I’ll pray that Fr. G and fag W convert. But the tree has almost hit the ground, and we know it lies where it falls.