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Top British Cardinal Resigns After Accusations of Committing ‘Inappropriate Acts’ - NYTimes.com:
"“Everybody’s been struck by how quickly Rome responded,” said Austen Ivereigh, director of the British church advocacy group Catholic Voices. “Clearly Rome saw that there was sufficient substance to the allegations. They would not have told him to stand down unless they thought there was something worth investigating.”
The move leaves Britain without a voting cardinal in the conclave, and is bound to raise questions about other cardinals. It comes amid a campaign by some critics to urge Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles not to attend the conclave because of his role in moving priests accused of abuse to other parishes."
'via Blog this'
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http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/02/roger_mahony_letter_jose_gomez_priest_sex_abuse.php
Despite being stripped of public and administrative duties, Mahony, who lives at a North Hollywood parish, remained "in good standing in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, with full rights to celebrate the Holy Sacraments of the Church and to minister to the faithful without restriction," Gomez said today.
A statement by David Clohessy, director of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) said the the rebuke was not enough for Mahony:
Hand-slapping Mahony is a nearly meaningless gesture. When he had real power, and abused it horribly, he should have been demoted or disciplined by the church hierarchy, in Rome and in the US. But not a single Catholic cleric anywhere had the courage to even denounce him.
SNAP leader Esther Hatfield:
In truth, LA church officials - including Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Jose Gomez, Bishop Thomas Curry and others - have relentlessly and expensively and successfully fought for years to keep these horrific secrets secret.
It's ludicrous for Mahony, Gomez and Curry to claim to be "forthcoming" with records they've successfully kept hidden for decades, using millions of dollars from generous parishioners to pay high prices lawyers to obstruct disclosures.We hope citizens and Catholics will read these records.
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Last week, Mahony caused a stir by asking God to “forgive” his accusers, who by implication have done Mahony wrong.
This week, Mahony is comparing himself to Jesus on the cross. I’m hardly the authority on Christianity, but I’m pretty sure that Jesus never shielded and protected child-rapist pritests.
Catholic priest scandal via Shutterstock
Cardinal Mahony’s blog post last week:
To be honest with you, I have not reached the point where I can actually pray for more humiliation. I’m only at the stage of asking for the grace to endure the level of humiliation at the moment.In the past several days, I have experienced many examples of being humiliated. In recent days, I have been confronted in various places by very unhappy people. I could understand the depth of their anger and outrage–at me, at the Church, at about injustices that swirl around us.Thanks to God’s special grace, I simply stood there, asking God to bless and forgive them.
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GJ - The Martin Luther College students, who made the gay-style music video, publicly forgave me for posting a WELS member's objections to their prancing and crotch grabbing.
Now they are sorry they did it - and the video will live forever.
