[Alex Murphy]

....Mahony on Monday found himself back at the center of church business, as one of 117 cardinals who will elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI....Father Thomas Rausch of Loyola Marymount University said Mahony has no choice in the matter: Church law requires him to vote, along with all cardinals under age 80, he said. "It is a sacred responsibility of every cardinal of the church who is able to attend the conclave to vote," said Tod Tamberg, archdiocese spokesman.

[Salvation]

Speaking of Pope Benedict:

**In his remarks at Monday's Mass, Gomez hailed Benedict's decision, calling it a "beautiful" act of humility. "This is the act of a saint, who thinks not about himself but only about the will of God and the good of God's people," Gomez said.**

[mimaw]

Makes me want to puke.

[Shadow44]

"I'm relieved that Mahony is going," Argento said. "Frankly, it's one more vote for a more progressive church." Imagine that. The Progressive wing just so happens to be the ones involved in covering up abuse.

[Campion]

"I'm relieved that Mahony is going," Argento said. "Frankly, it's one more vote for a more progressive church."

IOW, protecting perverts AND being a lousy bishop is okay, as long as you're a liberal.

Just a hunch, but I'm guessing she voted for Clinton, Obama, Feinstein, and Boxer.

[oldbrowser]

Gomez wrote in a letter to parishioners last month that the priest files were "brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil. There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children."

Nowhere in this article does it mention that these are "alleged" cases. It is clear that many of these cases did happen and it is clear that many of them did not.

[montag813]

Mahony belongs in jail. Remember he is also the creep who led the illegal Mexicans in their march against Prop 187 years ago, and also against Arizona’s SB1070 in 2010. He is an enemy of America.

[montag813]

Mahony belongs in jail. Remember he is also the creep who led the illegal Mexicans in their march against Prop 187 years ago, and also against Arizona’s SB1070 in 2010. He is an enemy of America.

[boatbums]

"We all have our faults," said Charles Drees, who attended the Mass. "God bless Cardinal Mahony."

I cannot imagine the Apostle Paul saying this about a bishop over one of the churches he founded in the first century. If he insisted that a member of the church at Corinth, who had sexual relations with his father's wife (most probably NOT his own mother, but a stepmother), be cast out of the church if he refused to repent and desist from that sin, then what kind of reaction would Paul have had to the very leaders of the church not only molesting and raping little kids but helping each other get away with it and cover it up for decades???!!!

I'm sorry, but waving your hand and saying, "Meh, we all have our faults.", is sickening to me. Sure we have our faults and none of us is sinless, but, come on! We're talking about one of the most disturbing and horrendous acts of depravity a person could commit - even hardened criminals in prison detest such a person. ALL of us are repulsed by it and believe a person found guilty of such a crime deserves the harshest punishment they can get. What's wrong with people? Some leaders of your religion are involved in this gross sin that destroys children's lives and it's brushed away as if it was no worse than getting a speeding ticket?

I sincerely hope whoever gets the crown will lay down the hammer on this whole deplorable saga and put some teeth behind the bark this time. Anything less will further diminish the brand. There may not BE a next time.

[kingu]

Why this man is still a priest, much less a Cardinal of the church, I will not understand. He should have been defrocked LONG ago, he is a depraved individual, who encourages others to do the same.

[metmom]

....Mahony on Monday found himself back at the center of church business, as one of 117 cardinals who will elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI....Father Thomas Rausch of Loyola Marymount University said Mahony has no choice in the matter: Church law requires him to vote, along with all cardinals under age 80, he said. "It is a sacred responsibility of every cardinal of the church who is able to attend the conclave to vote," said Tod Tamberg, archdiocese spokesman.

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

End of story.

[metmom]

A church spokesman later clarified that Mahony remained a priest "in good standing" and that he maintained all his powers as a cardinal.

For real?!?!

[onedoug]

No shame on Mahoney’s part, that’s for sure.