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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)
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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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.