Posted on 11/21/2021 5:00:21 PM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles, is notorious for his role in the Church’s abuse scandal. In 2013, he was “removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, as the church complied with a court order to release thousands of pages of internal documents that show how the cardinal shielded priests who sexually abused children,” reported the New York Times. “The documents, released as part of a record $660 million settlement in 2007 with the victims of abuse, are the strongest evidence so far that top officials for years purposely tried to conceal abuse from law enforcement officials.”
Before the abuse scandal erupted, Mahony had been known for his loud lectures on “social justice,” which he equated with the agenda of the Democratic Party. But even many liberals stopped listening to them after his protection of abusive priests came to light.
A patron of Democrats like Xavier Becerra, now Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary, Mahony once found himself in the middle of a scandalous controversy over a pardon Bill Clinton had granted to the cocaine dealer Carlos Vignali. Mahony had written a letter on Vignali’s behalf urging Clinton to pardon him, but it turned out that Mahony didn’t even know Vignali. In a rare apology, Mahony said that he wrote the letter at the direction of ”leaders of our community whom I greatly respect, including Sheriff Lee Baca, Congressman Xavier Becerra, and Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa.” He added, ”I made a serious mistake in writing to the president, and I broke my decades-long practice of never sending a letter on behalf of any person whom I did not know personally.”
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Why is this low life piece of garbage not occupying a jail cell?
Good question.
This duck-phucking (my opinion) piece of excrement (more of my opinion) seems perfect for a Cabinet appointment in the Biden Administration. Or maybe an ambassadorship?
How do you Catholics square this clown’s supposed authority with Holy Scripture?
You can’t square a circle.
[snip] A patron of Democrats like Xavier Becerra, now Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary, Mahony once found himself in the middle of a scandalous controversy over a pardon Bill Clinton had granted to the cocaine dealer Carlos Vignali. Mahony had written a letter on Vignali’s behalf urging Clinton to pardon him, but it turned out that Mahony didn’t even know Vignali. In a rare apology, Mahony said that he wrote the letter at the direction of ”leaders of our community whom I greatly respect, including Sheriff Lee Baca, Congressman Xavier Becerra, and Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa.” He added, ”I made a serious mistake in writing to the president, and I broke my decades-long practice of never sending a letter on behalf of any person whom I did not know personally.” [/snip]
When I lived in California decades ago, this ahole Mahoney was the Cardinal in Los Angeles.
He publicly urged people to vote for democrats, supported illegal immigration, “gun control,” and every other lefty cause.
He was also involved in covering up the sex abuse scandals.
He is rotten to the core.
He doesn’t have any authority anymore.
“Cardinal” Gregory (another black liberal racist from Obama’s Chicago power structure ) is another liberal extremist who consistently panders to democrat positions on illegal aliens, abortion, same sex marriage, pedophilia, homosexuality, and radical Muslim attacks. Now, under this pope, archbishop of Washington D.C.
A number of us don’t. Several years ago a freeper kept a list of bishops, arch-bishops and cardinals who were definitely not Catholic. The Rog was at the top of the list. That level of the hierarchy is required to retire at 75.
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