Roger Mahony is an ass.
My mother was in the leadership of the prayer community in the parish where Father Michael Baker was a new priest in California.
My mom went to Mahony at least a couple of times personally, wrote several letters and he did nothing regarding the problems. Mind you this was BEFORE he was molesting kids.
http://onelacatholic.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-on-father-bakers-arrest.html
The SOB Baker was fooling around with the women...
He looked like a linebacker version of Elvis.
He was one of the best orators in the church I ever heard and came off as VERY SPIRITUAL (ended up being an evil spirit).
My mother had to fight the other members of the leadership within that parish who were fooled and in the end she couldn't take the BS anymore and had to leave that parish.
Due to the fact Mahony didn't listen to my mother for 3 years, how many young men got molested? 40?
Most recently Mahony has been marching in Los Angeles for illegals who are here illegally and practicing felony document fraud to access our system and benefits.
A pox on Mahony IMO.
Good Post.
It is my humble opinion that Archbishop Flynn and Cardinal Mahony need to be taken out by the Vatican asap.
Both of them are a grave scandal to the Catholic Faithful in this country. We need to have Bishops and Cardinals like Chaput of Denver, Bruskewitz of Nebraska, Finn of Kansas -City Missouri, etc.
If the Vatican does not do this quickly, most Conservative/Orthodox Catholics in various Dioceses and Archdioceses in this country might join the "S.S.P.X." Folks en mass.
Something needs to be done quickly.