Abp. Robert Carlson was unsure if adult-child sex was a crime???? No need to wonder what is wrong with the Hierarchy of Newchurch, by this rotten fruit you will know!!!
“We believed that after the Council would come a day of sunshine in the history of the Church. But instead there has come a day of clouds and storms, and of darkness of searching and uncertainties…And how did this come about? We will confide to you the thought that may be, we ourselves admit in free discussion, that may be unfounded, and that is that there has been a power, an adversary power. Let us call him by his name: the devil. It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” - Pope Paul VI / The smoke of Satan has entered the church
(Seattle PI.Com) - St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson, in a legal deposition given last month, said he was uncertain that it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child.
Carlson was being deposed over a sex abuse allegation he dealt with as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in the mid-1980′s.
In the May 24 deposition, released on Monday, attorney Jeff Anderson asked Carlson if he “knew it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a kid.”
“I’m not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,” Carlson replied. “I understand today it’s a crime.”
Anderson went on to ask whether Carlson understood in 1984 whether it was a crime for a priest to engage in sex with a child.
“I’m not sure I did, or I didn’t,” the archbishop replied.
Alluding to another 1987 abuse case, Anderson asked: “But you knew a priest touching the genitals of a kid to be a crime, did you not?”
“Yes,” Carlson replied.
A spokesman for the St. Louis Archdiocese, Gabe Jones, released a statement to the St. Louis Post Dispatch saying “while not being able to recall his knowledge of the law exactly as it was many decades ago, the archbishop did make clear that he knows child abuse is a crime today.”
“The question does not address the archbishop’s moral stance on the sin of pedophilia, which has been that it is a most egregious offense,” the statement added.
The archbishop’s deposition has come to light on the eve of a meeting of the National Council of Catholic Bishops, which is to hear a major presentation on the American family.
On Tuesday, Anderson’s law office released internal documents from the St. Paul-Minneapolis diocese in 1984, showing Carlson discussing one abuse case with then-Archbishop John Roach. Carlson referred to the statute of limitations in the case. He reported that the victim’s family was thinking of calling the police.
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