A couple of days ago, I railed on Fr. Andrew Greeley who said that Cardinal Mahony of LA is about the only Cardinal who "gets it" and can deal with this Situation and its ramifications.
Oh really?
Maybe Fr. Greeley could do some extra credit reading between his hack novels, or even just be honest about what he already knows:
the LA Times editor discusses his paper's coverage of the situation there and even though the Times is, for the most part, right in Mahony's pocket, there are hints of the stonewalling there.
And then from San Francisco, victims of an abusing priest in Stockton reflect on Mahoney's role:
Stockton attorney Larry Drivon, who won the verdict against O'Grady and the Stockton Diocese, was shocked that Mahony would be called on to help the church find a way out of the sex abuse crisis.
"The thought of having this guy protect children against pedophile priests is sickening," Drivon said. "Parents should ask whether they want a solution left in the hands of Roger Mahony."
Nancy Sloan, a Fairfield woman who says she was molested by O'Grady in 1976,
when she was 11 years old, said she thought Mahony -- the West Coast's only cardinal -- should resign as the archbishop of Los Angeles.
"Mahony betrayed our trust and hasn't taken responsibility for his part in all this," Sloan said. Among the material presented in the 1998 trial was a 1976 letter in the files of the Stockton diocese in which O'Grady admitted to inappropriate behavior with Sloan.
The evidence implicating Mahony in the O'Grady case was offered by the very psychiatrist whom Mahony, as bishop, had hired in 1984 to assess the pedophile priest. O'Grady was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of lewd and lascivious acts.
In his testimony in the Stockton trial, Mahony denied that he knew O'Grady was a child molester.
But that statement was contradicted by the testimony of Dr. William Morris. According to the trial transcript, Morris testified that O'Grady had admitted being a "molester of children" and that Mahony had told Morris that he knew about O'Grady's pedophilia problem.
Morris' written report warned that O'Grady suffered "a severe defect in (sexual and social) maturation" and "is not truly called to the priesthood." Nevertheless, Mahony sent the priest on to other parishes, where the molestations continued.
And then see the American Prowler article cited below.