Posted on 07/17/2007 8:01:16 PM PDT by indcons
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles faces a firestorm after a $660 million settlement with victims of priest abuse, but he is considered unlikely to resign as legions of Latinos stand behind him.
In the most Latino of the big U.S. cities, Mahony's support for equality and immigration reform have earned him a following that may help him avoid the fate of other U.S. Roman Catholic leaders forced out in abuse scandals.
"I have a lot of confidence in the political and religious capital he has to survive this," said Clara Irazabal, a professor of urban planning at University of Southern California who works with Latino organizations.
"In social justice and immigration reform, he has been working for decades and a lot of people recognize his historical loyalty," she added.
Mahony this week acceded to the record settlement for victims of sexual abuse by priests, apologized publicly and sat in silence in court on Monday while victims sobbed at the end of a five-year battle.
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Criminals coming to the defense of a criminal, aka birds of a feather ...
They won’t have the $ means to contribute the $660M. That burden will fall upon non-illegal immigrant Catholics.
The worst bishop LA has ever had - American people are/have been leaving the Church in droves because of his coddling the pedo priests.
Los Angeles can’t become third world fast enough!
They are setting it up as the future capital of Atzlan.
If the collection plate is left empty long enough the hierarchy will get the message !!!
That SOB has been harboring not only illegals but common criminals for over 5 years that I know of.
He belongs in prison!
How convenient!
What's a nice Basque girl doing working with those thugs?
The illegal aliens are wasting their time...
maloney cant help them...
To have poewer you have to have money...Money is power...
Maloney has none ...he owes $660 million...
And no way to get any...
The illegal aliens send their money to Mexico... the American parishners wont be giving alms to him...
This clerical slime ball, who’s degraded and compromised the Church’s spiritual mission by knowingly collaborating with mass, criminal pederasty is now being defended because he’s knowingly and enthusiastically collaborating with mas immigration crime. In other words, he’s trying to slither out of the legitimate consequences of being involved in one mass of crimes by being involved in another mass of equally vile crimes.
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