Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times as he detailed how the Catholic church protected him for more than two decades after he admitted to molesting children
Longtime New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker received a special honor from the Vatican nearly 25 years ago despite having confessed to molesting children. Then, for another two decades, church leaders in the city strategically shielded him from law enforcement and media exposure – while also providing him with financial support ranging from paid limousine rides and therapeutic massages to full retirement benefits, according to his own, previously unreported testimony.
A sworn deposition Hecker gave in private in 2020 shows exactly how high-placed Catholic church officials in New Orleans let him keep his elevated position for years, even after they had been advised to oust him from the clergy and – much later – publicly acknowledged that he was a child predator.
“It wasn’t a big deal in those days,” Hecker said at the deposition about how his archdiocese coddled him despite his acknowledged abuse of children.
A person is on this earth and decides to abandon a church they see as evil, electing to go to hell because it’s the morally correct thing.
They die, find out they still exist, go to receive judgement and say, “Well I abandoned the church send me to hell I guess.”
Judge says, “Lol no, you passed the test. You chose to go to hell instead of overlooking morally corrupt demons who claimed divinity, all the people who knew and stayed in the church are in hell.”