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‘Homosexual pedophile network' operating in US Catholic Church: Pastor
Press TV (Iran)
June 11, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/06/11/366541/homosexual-pedophiles-run-us-churches/
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A Lutheran pastor and former US Senate candidate told Press TV on Tuesday that an “entire homosexual pedophile network” is operating within the Catholic Church in the United States.
Mark Dankof, who is also political commentator in San Antonio, Texas, condemned US church officials following reports that St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson claimed to be uncertain that sexual abuse of a child by a priest constituted a crime when he was auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota.
The former chancellor gave a deposition last month in a lawsuit that claims the Minnesota archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona created a public nuisance by keeping information on abusive priests secret, reported Minnesota Public Radio.
The 69-year-old Carlson also faces a massive clergy abuse lawsuit in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, where he’s served as archbishop since 2009.
Dankof said Carlson’s claims are “absolutely shocking statements because it’s absolutely insulting to the intelligence of any person who reads this sort of things and hears this sort of things.” He said priests like Carlson “should be sent to prison for the rest of their lives.”
“This problem of homosexuality and homosexual pedophiliac behavior among Roman Catholic priests is absolutely a legion, it’s blasphemous, it’s evil, it’s a discredit to Jesus Christ,” Dankof said.
More than 4,000 US priests have faced sexual abuse allegations since the 1950s, in cases involving more than 10,000 children. Some theologians have argued that the church's policy on celibacy fosters sexual dysfunction and abusive behavior among priests.
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