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I'll try to track down the stats on the cathedral. Price tag = $50 million!
Posted on 07/28/2002 9:28:34 PM PDT by yendu bwam
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
More storm clouds are gathering for Cardinal Roger M. Mahony. Police are investigating at least 72 of his current and former priests for child molestation. New accusers surface almost daily. Despite fierce resistance, a grand jury has forced him to turn over records related to three accused clerics. More subpoenas appear inevitable. L.A. County district attorney Steve Cooley says he will pursue the sex-abuse scandal afflicting the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese wherever it leads, even if it means His Eminence becomes the target of a criminal probe. And despite his hiring Enron Corp.'s former public relations firm, Mahony's record of harboring pedo-priests while L.A.'s archbishop -- and before that as bishop of Stockton -- appears to have finally caught up with him, leaving his spin doctors with a formidable challenge.
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This is a man who is not primarily concerned about children. He should never have been a priest in the Catholic Church. He is a scumbag. My parish priest would make a better bishop by far than he.
Let's see. If you were to assume that even only 75% of the priests so accused have acutally molested kids, that would mean that in Boston and LA, 0.75(142+72) = 160 priests have molested kids. 95% of these (about 150) most likely molested teenage boys. Each such homosexual molester priest most likely molested multiple boys (most homosexual molesters molest scores of boys before being caught). But let's say each molested 5 boys (a conservative number, I would guess). That would be 5*150 or 750 boys. Presuming that the molestation were carried out multiple times on the vast majority of these boys, we are likely talking about thousands of incidences of homosexual molestation of teenage boys just in Boston and LA. Just think, in two cities alone, likely more than several thousand times, a priest has approached a boy, and forced him into unnatural and sinful and perverted sex acts, forever damaging that boy's psyche. We have a sodomaniacal Church on our hands.
Please, please, I don't want to see it. I'm sure it is a piece of ugly and unholy junk.
We have a sodomaniacal Church on our hands.
I would say, We have a sodomaniacal Anti-Church on our hands. The stench of satan has entered the Church. The Church Militant (that would be us) need to fight it.
When our politicians have more integrity than our bishops, you know that our Church is at low ebb.
I stand corrected. You are right.
What is it that exists in so many liberals that desires to obliterate that which is truly holy, sanctified, traditional and venerable? They seem to seek to destroy all true meaning in things.
Purloined e-mails between the cardinal and his top lieutenants that a hacker turned over to KFI radio in April show Mahony and his lawyers talking about how to reveal as little as possible to police about priests under suspicion. It wasn't until June 18, three and a half months after Cooley first ordered him to come clean, that Mahony surrendered the first scrap of paper demanded by the district attorney -- and only after Cooley made good on threats to have the grand jury issue subpoenas.
I have to believe Mahony's attorney's would not normally advise such blatant obstruction.
The scope and scale of Mahony's culpability and the exposure to the LA Archdiocese has got to be greater than imagined heretofore.
Mahony must be in really deep.
And here they are ... KFI Emails
The individual who created the web site was pursued by the cardinal, trying to conceal the information. He has had several web sites "hacked", ostensibly by the cardinal's staff, but never gave up. He just created another and another. Persistence pays off.
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I'll try to track down the stats on the cathedral. Price tag = $50 million!
You ain't kiddin'! I've said before that when a Massachusetts judge (yes, a MA judge -- $1,000 to the right gubernatorial candidate and you've got your judgeship) is apparently the first person to inform Geoghan that he's done anything wrong -- well, something's rotten somewhere.
I may have mentioned on another thread that it reminds me most of the building that houses the ventilation equipment for the underground part of the Central Artery here in Boston -- and everyone here is complaining loudly that that's ugly even for ventilation housing!
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