[sinkspur]

They are obviously trying to smear this great spiritual leader.

So you get the media coming and going.

If the media reports about a priest who blames the media for the scope of the abuse crisis, then the media is trying to smear him?

There's lots of smoke here that Groeschel was at the heart of returning some of these abusers back to the active ministry. There's also at least one victim who said he tried to intimidate him into keeping quiet.

Those are the very things that brought down Cardinal Law. Law, in fact, relied on psychologists like Groeschel to tell them what to do with these abusers.

There is a huge lawsuit in Boston against the so-called "experts" who advised Law about abusive priests. I suspect Groeschel will get dragged into some of these lawsuits when they work their way around to the Paterson, NJ, diocese.

Stop blaming the media. Protestant churches have these same kinds of problems, but they are much quicker on the trigger to fire abusive ministers than the Catholic Church has been.

[Pyro7480]

I was never blaming the media for the scandal. In fact, I agree, the media was doing its responsibilty when it revealed the scandal to the world. It is the fault of the individual priests and the bishops who covered for them. What I do accuse the media of is going beyond responsibility and collaborating with the forces who are trying to undermine the Church. You cannot deny the slant of the media in favor of sodomites, enemies of the traditional family, and abortion.