A former bishop in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis testified in a court deposition that he did not know whether it was illegal for priests to have sex with children during his tenure as a point person on clergy abuse from the 1980s to mid 1990s.Really? That's his stance, that he didn't know that it was a crime when a priest fucked a child.
St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson said he did not report to police the claims of child sex abuse that crossed his desk, even when the perpetrator admitted them.
Except that he did know it was a crime. For documents prove otherwise.
A Carlson memo to former Archbishop John Roach in June 1984 described information from a vocational counselor at the St. Cloud Reformatory. The counselor reported that an inmate serving time for rape had been abused by Adamson from age 14 to 16. Adamson admitted he abused the boy.When asked why he couldn't remember anything (Carlson said that he didn't remember over 190 times), he blamed it on having had surgery:
“The statute of limitations does not run out for 2 1/2 years,” Carlson wrote to Roach. “The mother and father are considering reporting this to police.”
“I can’t make either a psychological or a physical diagnosis, other than to say I have had seven cancer surgeries. Each time, I received some kind of chemical to put me out for that. If that’s impeded my memory or not, I have no idea,” Carlson answered. “My concern is that what I say to you would be accurate.”Okaaay, if that's the story that you want to go with. Good luck with that, Archie.
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More ancient fuckery by the RCC comes to light across the pond.
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St. Peter will have the last word.
OK...fuck the whole secular law thing. If you don't know, in your heart, that it is EVIL for an adult to rape a child, you're in thrall to the guy with the horns and pointed stick, no matter what funky outfit you're wearing.
Dear Lord, please deliver us from those who come in Your name, yet know You not.
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