Payback Time

Los Angeles New Times ^ | July 25, 2002 | Ron Russel

[yendu bwam]

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.

[Palladin]

That's a Cathedral? For whom? Satan and his minions?

[NYer]

Roger Mahony bump!!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

When you change the spin from "Catholic" sex scandal to "homosexual" scandal, the cloud passes and the shadowy shapes become clearer.

[narses]

Isn't that an amazingly ugly edifice?

[Palladin]

It looks like a prison. Hey--here's an idea--put bars on it and use it to incarcerate all the pedophile priests and the cardinals and bishops who enable them!