Posted on 05/01/2006 4:59:09 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
LOS ANGELES - That Cardinal Roger Mahony attended grammar school here, in the modest St. Charles Borromeo parish more than a half-century ago, was a fact lost on many parishioners on a recent Sunday. But little else is forgotten about the neighborhood-kid-done-good whose national profile has been on the rise, largely for his willingness to take on controversy, especially his stand on illegal immigration. Mahony, 70, who leads the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, is scheduled to participate in today's planned mass protests in Los Angeles, except not the one to be held downtown.
Rather, after celebrating noon Mass at Los Angeles' Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels today, Mahony will march in a barrio. Mahony has often been said to have a common touch among Latino immigrants. When newly ordained in the 1960s, Mahony sought a remote post in rural Fresno, Calif., where he worked with immigrant farm laborers and their then-leader, Cesar Chavez.
Thank you. I just think that people of the church like Cardinal Mahoney should be recalled to the Vatican and fired or reassigned to Venezuela, Communist China, or Iraq.
I think he should be in charge of licking postage stamps in some obscure corner of the Vatican, but I suspect the reason he is being left in place is to deal with the massive sexual harrassment lawsuits that all occurred under his watch and for which he has consistently tried to evade responsibility. The guy is a heretic and a snake in the grass, and any decent illegal immigrant should be unwilling to be seen with him.
Clergy and economics just don't mix. On the Protestant sidem, Coleson has some clueless things to say about energy "policy" this morning.
"Thank you. I just think that people of the church like Cardinal Mahoney should be recalled to the Vatican and fired or reassigned to Venezuela, Communist China, or Iraq."
It would be satisfying to see that every now and then...but it isn't how the popes seem to operate.
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