Fr. Benedict Groeschel on The Many Facets of the Abuse Crisis: How’d We Get Into This Unholy Mess?
I’ve been focusing on the fallout of the abuse crisis as it affects priests removed from ministry without due process. For perspective, let’s go back six years when the earthquake of clerical abuse stories destabilized the local Church in 2002.
At that time, Fr. Benedict Groeschel taped an emergency response called An Urgent Appeal in three parts. Father addressed:
- Horrific sexual crimes perpetrated by priests and family members
- Homosexual activism and lifestyle versus same-sex attraction
- Legally-defined pedophilia as it relates to homosexuality
- Shell shocked bishops responding out of cowardice and weariness
- Wasted suffering
- Wake up calls for the reform of the renewal
- How the mainstream media and Hitler shared the same modus operandi for anti-Catholic propaganda
- How the media endeavors to destroy Catholic influence on life issues: abortion, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, etc., during the abuse crisis.
- Clerical psychopaths
- How left wing dissidents are exploiting the crisis to inject their agenda: married priests, women priests, homosexual “marriage,” abolishing celibacy, etc.
- How right wing dissidents are buying the media screed about priests hook, line and sinker.
- Warning that priests taken off the job are accused not automatically guilty
Six years ago, Fr. Groeschel predicted what is happening to “chartered” priests today. After listening, spend some time and meditate on what has come to pass during the past five years. Each part of An Urgent Appeal is 30 minutes long:
An Urgent Appeal Part One
An Urgent Appeal Part Two
An Urgent Appeal Part Three
