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Outrage at friar's claims that it is often the teenage boys who seduce priests...
mail online ^ | 8.31.2012 | Daniel Miller

Posted on 08/31/2012 8:03:38 PM PDT by Morgana

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Who is this guy and is he serious?
1 posted on 08/31/2012 8:03:53 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

I’m speachless....


2 posted on 08/31/2012 8:06:18 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Voter ID Equals "No Representation Without Respiration")
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To: Morgana

Probably a lib in disguise.


3 posted on 08/31/2012 8:08:28 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Morgana

Actually, he’s a big-time figure on ETWN

http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/seriessearchprog.asp?SeriesID=7054&T1=


4 posted on 08/31/2012 8:09:22 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Morgana

They need to get a warrant and check this guy’s computer. Probably some very interesting — and disgusting — things in there.


5 posted on 08/31/2012 8:11:33 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ( "Be Breitbart, baby!")
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To: Morgana

Suppose this is even remotely true, The Priest shouldn’t just say no, go away, not right, not interested?

Un-freakin-believable.

The Mayans were right. It’s all over 12/21/2012.

Weirder and weirder everyday..........


6 posted on 08/31/2012 8:12:22 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Methinks you are on to something.


7 posted on 08/31/2012 8:13:52 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Morgana

I met Father Groeschel years ago at the Washington March For Life and used to watch him on EWTN before he was seriously injured in an accident.

He prayed outside of abortion mills for years. I always looked up to him (and I’m not Catholic).

This is shocking and heartbreaking.


8 posted on 08/31/2012 8:26:30 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Clinging to my Bible and my HK.)
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Who is this guy and is he serious?

He's the founder, IIRC of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Sadly, in 2004, he was hit by a car, and suffered broken arms, legs, head trauma, and was hospitalized for a really long time.

IIRC, he suffered either some heart attacks, and strokes during the subsequent hospitalization, so, I think he's probably "just not right in the head", anymore.

9 posted on 08/31/2012 8:28:52 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. This is FreeRepublic, afterall.)
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To: Morgana

I heard he has brain damage from a bad accident. There was a thread earlier today on this.


10 posted on 08/31/2012 8:29:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Morgana

Now I understand why Friar Tuck was always hanging out with those merry men.


11 posted on 08/31/2012 8:35:50 PM PDT by Krankor (Green-eyed lady, lovely lady Strolling slowly towards the sun)
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To: Morgana

FWIW: He’s pretty ill and has cognitive problems, the story was pulled and statements issued.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/father-benedict-groeschel-reflects-on-25-years-of-the-franciscan-friars-of/


12 posted on 08/31/2012 8:46:42 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Bet they won’t find a single thing. These freaks know how to ‘lock’ a computer so that the FBI’s best people can’t even see into it.

There was a guy who was accused of child molestation, I think, and I remember reading how no one could come up with the many codes to get into it. (I think he was in the DA’s office or something like that and he killed himself when he was surrounded by LE.)


13 posted on 08/31/2012 8:52:55 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Father Benedict Groeschel is suffering from dementia, and Alzheimer’s. Over the last year I’ve watched his cognitive abilities fail drastically. You have no idea who this man is, or what he’s accomplished in his life.


14 posted on 08/31/2012 9:01:29 PM PDT by heights
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Father Groechel is an upright and holy priest. I’m thinking this is just another hit piece on someone the media doesn’t like.

The fact that it came from email, too, bothers me.


15 posted on 08/31/2012 9:02:48 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Morgana

Father Groeschel, an influential voice in the American catholic community, <<<

LMAO...Not any more Pal!


16 posted on 08/31/2012 9:12:50 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: heights

Yes, he should not have been interviewed in the first place due to his chronic ill health. This really stinks of bad political orchestration of some malevolence.


17 posted on 08/31/2012 9:19:59 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG ... there is no such thing as coincidence)
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To: heights

Excuse me. You have no idea who I am.

And my comment was an answer to someone else, not you.


18 posted on 08/31/2012 9:31:07 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Fr. Benedict Groeschel is a PhD Psychologist and a good conservative man. He works in the streets in Brooklyn and is well-respected. Do you just think they are taking words out of context and making a mountain out of a molehill? And what might be the reason?


19 posted on 08/31/2012 9:32:23 PM PDT by bboop (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
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Thank you, heights. He is a good man, and yes, his cognitive abilities have deteriorated a lot over the last year.


20 posted on 08/31/2012 9:33:46 PM PDT by bboop (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
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