[wideawake]

As shocking as it may sound, metmom, Mahony has canonical rights like every other Catholic and he cannot be punished before he has been found liable in a court of canon law.

Americans, of all people, should be able to understand the notion of due process.

[TSgt]

Americans, of all people, should be able to understand the notion of due process.

Due process?

You mean like the court order the LA Diocese is currently violating after it fought for 6 years to prevent the release of documents related to child sex abuse under a settlement with victims?

When the do the victims get due process?

And the church wonders why society thinks it's a joke!

[D-fendr]

Sometimes on FR it’s “Punishment first, then trial.”

I thank God for Pope Benedict and for Archbishop Gomez.