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An Indian worker cleans a crucifix at a church ahead of Christmas in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Christians make up about 2 percent of India's 1 billion-plus population. (Mahesh A / Associated Press)
Catherine Johnston
An Indian worker cleans a crucifix at a church ahead of Christmas in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Christians make up about 2 percent of India's 1 billion-plus population. (Mahesh A / Associated Press)
An Indian worker cleans a crucifix at a church ahead of Christmas in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Christians make up about 2 percent of India's 1 billion-plus population. (Mahesh A / Associated Press)

He claims he did not know sex between a child and priest was illegal ?! Robert Carlson , a former archbishop of the Minneapolis-St. Paul archdiocese, claims he did not know sex between a child and a priest (or presumably any adult) was illegal.  I had to write it twice because the comment is truly unbelievable.

Carlson, now archbishop of St. Louis, served as point person on clergy abuse in the 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Theologians must complete years and years of education. What part of Catholic social teaching’s main principle -“the inherent dignity of every human person” – did Carlson miss? To claim legal ignorance on this horrible activity is ludicrous. Carlson needs to step down from his role in the Catholic Church – he is not worthy to serve God’s people.

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