It's an understandable thing … there are the relatively rare cases where a priest is involved in a homosexual way with a minor. I think the statistic I read recently in a secular psychology review was about 2%. Would that be true of other clergy? Would it be true of doctors, lawyers, coaches?

Here's this poor guy — [Penn State football coach Jerry] Sandusky — it went on for years. Interesting: Why didn't anyone say anything? Apparently, a number of kids knew about it and didn't break the ice. Well, you know, until recent years, people did not register in their minds that it was a crime. It was a moral failure, scandalous; but they didn't think of it in terms of legal things," – Father Benedict Groeschel, the director of the Office for Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

The remarks were first posted in the National Catholic Register. All links to the page seem to have been taken down since yesterday. It's a staggering insight into how the old hierarchy viewed child abuse: as essentially the child's fault and no big deal. "Poor Sandusky"? MoDo, call your office.