Cardinal Mahony was certainly one of the problems. He should never have been made a Cardinal in the first place, and he should have been given the boot years sooner.
You won’t find many faithful Catholics standing up for him.
Pope Benedict has been gradually reforming the hierarchy, but it takes a long time. The revisionists, the modernists, and the homosexuals who crept into the Church did an awful lot of damage. Ironic that much of the most intense criticism comes from Catholic bashing, liberal, gay rights supporters much like the villains they criticize.
We were just having a discussion on another thread about this subject. The fact that the RCC allowed these priests to continue is appalling and rather telling.
< Actually, he fled in full view, without either state or federal officials objecting to him "visiting" a non-extraditable locale, even as evidence of similar malfeasance was mounting.
He now has a pretty nice sinecure in Vatican City...
It’s funny that the fund raiser message that showed up on this thread is “Silence is Consent.” Because it’s relevant to the story.