Lets not get into posting smears, please.
Mahoney may be wrong on how to deal with this issue but he is hardly a "traitor" any more than other Americans who are on the opposite side of this issue are.
Mahoney is a man of God and deserves our respect.
I'm sorry, kelly..but I have no respect for him. He does not speak for this Catholic.
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I think you need to research Mahoney a little more. John and Ken (the 2 crazy radio guys on KFI) had some interesting information about him a few years ago.
God's work does not include impeding investigations by the LA District Attorney.
"Mahoney is a man of God and deserves our respect."
Sorry Kelly.
Mahoney has done a great deal of damage to the Catholic faith,
the traditions of which he does not appear to practice or support.
While I respect his office of bishop, I cannot respect him personally.
I don't think I am the Lone Ranger on this issue.
I personally know a cardinal of the Church so I can tell you they are not all deserving of blank-check respect. I don't know this one, so I'll just hope he is a better priest than he is a patriot.
I am not alone in doubting his veracity in that regard. He is showing himself more and more as a political/economic figure and not a religious one.
No. He has done more to destroy the Catholic faith in Los Angeles and any bishop before him. He is what he is...a heretic "not of God" and deserves NO respect whatsoever.
I can't really agree with you about Cardinal Mahoney. I don't fault him so much for his stand on Mexican immigrants, because although I disagree with it there are some good Catholics who somewhat naively think this is the charitable position to take.
Mahoney, however, is not just naive. He has been a dissident and a troublemaker who has spent much of his life undermining the Church. There's nothing naive about it, it's deliberate. The sooner he is out of office the better. He should have been replaced long since by a bishop who is truly loyal to the Church.
I am a Catholic myself, and I will say this loudly, RESPECT IS EARNED, NOT GIVEN, and respect for the office the Cardinal holds only goes so far. Even if Cdl. Mahoney was for the sealing of the borders and deportion of all illegal aliens, I would still not respect him for the horrible manner he runs the LA archdiocese, how hetrodoxy goes unchecked, how religous vocations have been all but destroyed.