Why is Cardinal Roger Mahony, who was just in the Vatican to elect the new pope, still obstructing the L.A. County DA's investigation into child molestation and the church's complicity? You'll find very few FReeper Catholics with anything good to say about Roger Cardinal Mahony. Most of us will celebrate when he's gone.
Why was Cardinal Bernard Law allowed to escape to the Vatican and avoid testifying about his continual cover-ups of child molesting priests?
You're mistaken; Law did testify. In fact, I believe his deposition was posted to FR at one point.
If you ask me, the Catholic Church behaves in many ways like a cult.
This is always the bottom line, of course.
If he did give depositions, then I am mistaken. However, will he be forced to return and testify in ongoing litigation and criminal trials? And beyond the legal system, shouldn't he be made to answer to the people he served for his heinous behavior?
It seems to me that by allowing him to live the remainder of his life safe in the Vatican the church is once again invoking CYA. Isn't this fundamentally wrong?