ST. LOUIS (MO)
Riverfront Times
By Ray Downs Mon., Jun. 16 2014
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Archbishop Robert Carlson has had a bad month. But St. Louis’ holiest man has faith that if he makes the right excuse, a miracle will happen and it’ll all just go away.
For the second time in a week, the public relations wizards at the St. Louis Archdiocese have sought to address the uproar that came as a result of Carlson saying in a deposition that he could not remember if he knew sexually abusing a child was a crime during his time at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Archdiocese during the 70’s and 80’s.
After the deposition was released, the Archdiocese issued a press release that accused the plaintiff’s lawyers of taking Carlson’s comments out of context and then blamed the media for eating it up.
But on Friday, Carlson put out a video statement in which he says that he simply misunderstood the question, and that’s why he said he didn’t know sexually abusing a child was a crime.
“In the deposition last month, I misunderstood a series of questions that were presented to me,” Carlson says in the video. “I wish to clarify that situation now.”
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