My dear friend, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of L.A., who I must confess I haven't seen in years, knows how to keep a secret. So he knew about the rape of small boys. So what? He prayed for them. What more do you expect? Miracles?
This church stuff is just too good to be true. Colleagues, can you believe that people still send their kids to us? What a thing we have going here. Pinch me because I think I am in heaven.
"Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony Hid Priest Abuse, Files Show
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top adviser discussed ways to conceal the molestation of children from law enforcement, according to internal Catholic church records released Monday.
The archdiocese’s failure to purge pedophile clergy and reluctance to cooperate with law enforcement has previously been known. But the memos written in 1986 and 1987 by Mahony and Msgr. Thomas J. Curry, then the archdiocese’s chief advisor on sex abuse cases, offer the strongest evidence yet of a concerted effort by officials in the nation’s largest Catholic diocese to shield abusers from police.
The newly released records, which the archdiocese fought for years to keep secret, reveal in church leadermahonys’ own words a desire to keep authorities from discovering that children were being molested..."
Full of Mahony:
A refresher course for we men of the cloth:
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